Mystery non-solved
A bit back I asked for help identifying a gun. Well, Terry has posted a non-answer:
The answer is that the gun is a working replica of a Chinese .45 automatic — or at least that’s what I was told via my translator.
This is what happens when you give guns to non-gun-nuts. I still don’t know what it is. But, and I’m guessing here, it’s probably one of the Norinco 1911 clones that were real popular until Bush 1 said we can’t import semi-autos anymore.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
I got the “new” BMP and blew it up. That is 100% for certain I’ll stake my job at the gun shop on it a Tokarev TT variant. (/stake) The barrel’s not big enough to be a .45 so it’s either a 54 or a 213, likely just a type 54…
It’s pixellated, but you can see the trigger guard shape, a bare hint of the shape of the grip frame by where his fingers are pushed out to, the shape of the back of the slide, somewhat distinctive undercut at the nose of the slide, no guide rod, round hammer profile, relationship of the rear sight location on the slide and it’s distinctive narrowness and height, the vertical serrations and location on the slide, and finally the barest hint of the retaining clip or the extended end of the slide lock/link pin sticking out of the slide… that’s a TT. I’m 100% sure.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:46 am
heh.
I’ll put up drstrangegun’s verdict over at my site. Thanks!