Back when I had my shop I was in communication with a guy in Florida trying to trace a Chinese copy of an M&P that was engraved to a guy named Charles Race, CWS.

Turns out the guy was a chem war specialist (Chemical Warfare Service) who had done something great for a village in China and they gave him a knock off M&P engraved with is name. It was in .32, I think because the barrel may have been made from an old Mauser but thats a guess.

Eventually I tracked down who the guy was and tracked down his family. The guy came back from the war, hit the bottle and crashed and burned. Supposedly he had a hand in the development of early napalm. Before he died the family says the guns were given away/sold/taken away.

Eventually the guy who contacted me was able to re-unite the gun with the family.

Best,
RM Vivas

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RM Vivas
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