1 April 2019

[cwo4uscgret]

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!

[cwo4uscgret]

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...

[Caleb]

Those Scorpion pistols shoot very well. The fastest I’ve ever downed a whole plate rack was with one of these sporting an eotech red dot and sig brace.


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[cwo4uscgret]

Something a bit different - Colt Police Positive Special, .38 Special. I got this and a few other guns in a trade on Coltforums.com. This one was shipped to the Cleveland (Ohio) Police Department in 1929:

[cwo4uscgret]

Pair 'o' Revolvers.

I first visited Hong Kong in 1972 while I was onboard the USS MIDWAY. We anchored out so far in the harbor we were close to where the Queen Elizabeth, the sister ship of the Queen (now a tourist attraction and hotel in Long Beach, CA) caught fire and sank in Hong Kong Harbor where, as the biggest Ocean Liner was being overhauled and refitted. Three separate fires broke out and between the damage and firefighting water sunk her.



I was 20 in 1972 and well Hong Kong and Kowloon were a sailor's paradise! At the time HK was a British Crown Colony; I was really impressed by how professional and squared away the Royal Hong Kong Police looked in their olive drab uniforms; over the alf socks, and the creases in their uniform shirts and shorts looked sharp enough to shave with! They wore leather Sam Browne Belts and flapped cross draw holsters with some sort of revolver - that I didn't know what make they were.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago; and I know what some of them carried; Colt Police Positive Special Revolvers chambered in .38 S&W, or as the British referred to it as .38-200. I made a gun trade with someone on Coltforums.com; I sent him two guns and I ended up with a total of 5 Colt revolvers; including two RHKP Colt's. One of the guns is Century marked; the other is not. Both have a 4 digit number on the back strap; the number 4633 is the same number as my house address in MI before we moved to Texas! He also included two RHKP Badges, and a couple of other badges as well...

[Caleb]

^^^^Great read and beautiful revolvers


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[DrHenley]

It's pretty neat when a gun has a story.

[cwo4uscgret]

Here's one of the other Colts I acquired during the above mentioned trade. This one is a Colt Police Positive Special; .38 Special, shipped to the Cleveland (Ohio) Police Department in 1929.

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Cleveland, OH Police Positive Special .38 Special made in 1929

[cwo4uscgret]

So a rhetorical question that most gun folks should know the answer to...

Who put the AR in the AR-15, AR-16? Why the answer would be: ARMALITE. The basic Armalite came in two flavors; AR-18 (Select fire) and the AR-180 (Semi-auto only).

The Armalite 18 and 180 were made in 3 places; England, Japan, and California. Mine is from Sterling, made in England.

I bought my AR-180 when I lived in Michigan; it came with a 20 round Armalite marked magazine and 3x40 round Armalite Magazines including one still sealed in plastic. I found the scope on-line; it is an original Armalite Scope; similar to the early Colt AR scopes.

[cwo4uscgret]

So new (to me) I haven't even chambered a round. Every time I buy a lever action gun I end up trading or selling it. Hopefully that will stop with this gun I just bought today; the Marlin 1895M Guide Gun chambered in .450 Marlin.

The .450 Marlin is an effort to create a modern version of the .45-70; except it is more of the .458 family.