OSS or CIA guns...?

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RKO, yes my goof... should have been Browning HP's (Power not Point!)

m-1911... I wondered the same... what was green the "civies" or the Swedish K's. I'm guessing the Swedish K's... green like Polish AK74's?

Mike, thanks for your additional comments. Yes, it would seem like something had been done to the gun if the grips were a little "long"!

Linda

 

[Guest]

Just for reference, I had several Swedish Ks while I was in RVN. The "Best" as described earlier, was a matte Parkerized type finish. A couple others we more OD Green in color but the finish seemed to be more 'painted' on although it seemed to have been very well done. Professional??? Factory???

I don't remember seeing any magazines that were so colored but then it has been a very long time and things like that weren't very notable to me at the time.

I also had several Uzi submachine guns in the stash and I seem to remember that they were all a simple basic matte black finish.

Among the other guns I had collected for the "Museum" were Browning BARs, High Powers and even a couple of early Mauser pistols.

MAK

 

[opoefc]

Mike, Actually the Model 29 Tunnel Gun was backtracked to the original shipment of 14 N frames, without barrels, to AAI in 1969, where they were converted to .52 cal. QSPRs ( Quiet, Special Purpose Revolvers ) Firing a steel cased shell that had no gunpowder, therefore no smoke or noise, but the buckshot load was propelled by a small expolsive gel that forced a piston to move forward in the shell case ( really a small gun barrel!) sending the buckshot out to about 1400 ft. effective range, so the ammo. was really a gun inside of a gun. Tricky! These 14 had serial numbers, all S prefix except for 3 N prefixes. How & when the numbers were removed, who knows. Not all were as the examples (2) at Aberdeen have N series numbers, and the Secret Service has S316077. How many went to Nam, I don't know, but some came back under the radar. I no longer have these items as Calif. does not like cartridge guns without numbers,etc.

 

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opoefc,

Ed, ok you've got me... a new acronym? AAI?

Who's that?

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=aai&Find=find&string=exact

thanks,
Linda

 

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opoefc, by AAI do you mean Air America??

thanks!

 

[Bell Charter Oak Holsters]

Back in the late 60's or very early 70's, I recall seeing two Colt 1911 A1's which were never stamped with a serial number. They did have all the correct U.S. Property marks though. They were not defaced or refinished. The guy who had them was a "black bag type", and brought them along to Chic Gaylord's shop where he was ordering a double shoulder rig. He asked Chic if he needed them to do the job. Chic asked him to leave.

We learned sometime later that the fellow went over to Seventrees, owned by the late self proclaimed "spook" Paris Theodore, a former protoge of Gaylord's. Apparently he was met with a friendlier reception there. Anyway, Chic said the guy was a poser and thought it made no sense that only the serial numbers were absent while the U.S. property marks remained. Our impression was this was probably a "lunch pail" gun, liberated in parts from Hartford by a dishonest employee.

The only S&W revolvers or autos I've ever seen without serial numbers were defaced by criminals. That practice is ineffective to obscure the serial number. Because any equipped forensic lab examiner can bring those numbers back up with acid. However, if they were never stamped in the first place, that's a whole other ball of wax.

 

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Lefty, thanks for the info!