1 April 2019

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Something a little out of the ordinary. L. W. Seecamp emigrated to the US from Canada after he left Germany at the end of WWII. Before founding the L. W. Seecamp Firearms Company he was an O. F. Mossberg's gun designer. His very small .25 acp, .32 acp, and .380 acp pistols are mechanical marvels.

One thing that he did was to convert Single Action 1911 pistols to Double Action/Single Action guns. Seecamp also authorized other companies to to do the conversions. My Seecamp converted Gold Cup National Match gun was done by a company, TSW, of Paramus, NJ. Here it is:




Here's what the double action mechanism looks like; what looks like a single action trigger - is. You can pull the single action trigger (although you can't do it easily, the DA Trigger blocks access) and fire the gun.

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and then there was one.

I bought two Italian Military/Police M-1 Carbines from CMP about 12 years ago. I can't remember when but within a year or so of buying them and shooting them I sold one and kept the better shooting of the two. They were both Inland made guns; WWII then to Italy as a Foreign Military Assistance "loan".

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During the Cold War the Czechs made, and was used by the Secret Police, the CZ Skorpion .32 acp Machine Pistol. It was a vicious little sucker, very high cyclic rate of fire and very compact.

CZ has given the SCORPION name to a new pistol, rifle, and in other then the US, a select fire gun. For some reason the BATFE as approved shouldering and firing a Scorpion Pistol with a wrist brace - which makes for a convenient sized gun. As a pistol the brace makes a lot more sense. Throw a red dot or a low power (3X) scope on it and it's a fine little shooter!

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Something different, a CZ-40P. The 40P could be called CZ's Frankengun; when a joint venture between Colt and CZ more or less failed (CZ was making a Model 40B with Colt labeling) CZ had left over parts. They installed the 40B slide on a P-01 "type" frame, making the 40P. It's a great auto despite being a .40 S&W...