What does the Bren Ten have to do with "Bren"?

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In other words, what connection is there (if any) to BREN, as in the English machine gun, which is an acronym for *something* (the name of the man who designed that machine gun, I believe) and Enfield, the English arsenal's name during that era. Connection?
 
Brno (who we know today as CZ) was the original manufacturer of the ZB26, the light machinegun that was eventually re-designed to become the "Bren". Since the "Bren Ten" is based so much on the CZ-75 design (a post-WW2 Brno design), they probably decided to call the pistol the "Bren Ten" mainly for onomatopoeic reasons, ie. they liked the way it rhymed.
 
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