German Handgun
Anyone know what this is? Apologies for the pictures. I edit them correctly and Photobucket screws it up somehow. I can't get them to come through right side up. Any help is appreciated! Thanks and Happy Columbus Day Weekend.
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I was talking guns at a local festival this evening and had a fellow tell me he had a .45 cal German handgun from WWII. Did the Germans use a handgun close to the .45 cal in WWII, and if so could you give me some information on it. THANKS
Grizzly and Pet 25-060 -
The last time I know of that Germany used anything close to .45 is the old Reichsrevolver, a very few of which were still in use by WW2, but other than that, I am not aware of any. 9mm Luger, 7.65 Browning, 6.35 Browning were all common pistol calibers. Any .45s would have been made for export, and even then there weren't many.
"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conf0 -
The other posts are accurate.
However, the possibility exisits that he may have taken the pistol from a dead German soldier that had taken the pistol from a dead American G.I.
If he was at WWII, then he should have known that the Germans had nothing like the .45.
Sounds like too much lager was consumed on his part.
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It might look roughly like a .45 but could be a Browning HiPower or Polish Radom. 0 -
You're right Jim. Norway was the first country to license-build the M1911 as the "Colt Automatisk Pistol Model 1912". They made a few minor changes in 1914 and it became the "11.25 m/m Automatisk Pistol Model 1914".
In '42 and '43, during the German occupation of Norway, Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk turned out about 10,000 pistols for the German Herreswaffenamt as the "Pistole 657(n)-Norw.14-"
Chief Grizzly's friend may have one of those.0
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