M-10-10 for Brazilian market: question
In another forum here, someone has pictured a Model 10-10. It looks like an ordinary M-10 heavy barrel, but his has the round butt, made for the Victoria (state) police in Australia. Some have been sold off here recently.
I thought the M-10-10 was a variant sold in Brazil. It looks like the French order for three-inch barrels (lugged) and with fixed sights sold to France for their Presidential guards. Those are .357's marked as M-19's. Because of local laws, the Brazilian guns have to be limited to .38 Special chambering. Without a special collector's license, that's the most powerful revolver an ordinary Brazilian can own, and that includes most cops.
What's the deal here? Both versions of the M-10 can't be the M-10-10, can they? Both do have round butts. Am I wrong about the model number on those guns for Brazilian sale?
I think very similar guns have been sold in the Ladysmith line.
Last edited by Texas Star; 08-07-2014 at 02:15 AM.
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