Vintage gun ads

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[Andy54Hawken]

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Ahhh....I miss the "Big Green"...back when they made a quality firearm.
Andy

 

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[ilikegunspdx]

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I saw one of those for sale last week. Really only thing interesting about it is it's name though. Spanish I think it was? Can't recall. I know it was 9mm largo.

 

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Really only thing interesting about it is it's name though. Spanish I think it was? Can't recall. I know it was 9mm largo.

Indeed. Little pistol caliber carbine from Spain. The overwhelming majority are in 9x23㎜ Largo (aka Bergmann–Bayard), but there are some commercial/export models in 9x19㎜ Parabellum and .38 Super. There's some pics of the 9㎜ Luger variant here, if you are so interested.

No idea why they are called that, other than there is a small, somewhat crude, engraving of a warship of that type on most of these carbines.

 

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Not for Guns, but I love me some Toyota.

 

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[DeanMk]

I saw one of those for sale last week. Really only thing interesting about it is it's name though. Spanish I think it was? Can't recall. I know it was 9mm largo.

Originally, the maker was Gaztanaga y Compania in Eibar, Espana.

.... no, I'm not that smart, I found a wiki page on that gun ...

Destroyer carbine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

...and in case you're curious - 864 ft./lbs. ME

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Not really vintage, but from 2008:

 

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[Paolung]

The good ol' days.

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And NO mass showings/school shootings to speak of, really, except for Whitman (who had a brain tumor)… despite all the mail order semiautomatic firearms sold by mail back then.