#Handguns

Faisal, a Malaysian reader of the blog, discovered a DIY pistol stock at a local flea market. According to the seller, it was a war trophy from his Army days and that it was originally fitted to a Browning Hi-Power pistol. This is the type of stock that Malaysian communists insurgents used during Malaysia’s 2nd Communist Insurgency.

S&W is announcing a new pistol tomorrow. Rumors flying around the internet say that it will be called the S&W M&P Shield, will be single stack, chamber 9mm & .40 S&W, and is just a little larger than 9mm sub-compacts like the Ruger LC9

A keen-eyed reader noticed that all references to the .45/.410 Shot Pistol have been pulled from the USFA website and ShotPistol.com now just redirects to the USFA homepage. Judging by the comments readers left on my original post about the USFA Shot Pistol M4-410 model, pulling this product was probably a sound business decision.

Glock Gen4 pistols are finally available in Flat Dark Earth. Lipseys is now distributing Glock Gen4 G17, G19, G21, G22 and G23 models with a Flat Dark Earth frame.

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The TTK is a new pistol from AKBS (АКБС) of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. The TTK is a modernized version of the Russian TT pistol and it uses TT magazines. It is chambered in the less-lethal 10х28mm rubber ball round but the company plans on producing a lethal 9x19mm version in the future.

Russian firm Arsenal Firearms have official specifications of the Strike One pistol have been published. I first wrote about it last month after seeing it in a Russian-language video. The pistol’s main innovation is in-line recoil (the barrel recoils straight back, rather than tilting or twisting). This could allow easier control of the gun during recoil.

The Trigger Trainer is a training device that purportedly helps to improve trigger pull.

This beautiful “Coffin” cased pinfire revolver/dagger was made for Jose Balta, the 19th President of Peru, by the French firm Lefauchaux Casimer & Eugene in 1870 is being auctioned off by RIA. Jose Balta is notable for among other things being deposed and then shot by Tomás Gutiérrez, his own Minister of Defense (four days later Gutiérrez was lynched).

I understand, and appreciated, blinged out and chromed guns on parade, but they just look silly when used in exercises by soldiers who just looked like they stepped off a messy hay ride.

I.O., formally known as Inter Ordnance, has developed an improved version of the original .380 HellCat pistol which first went on sale in 2010. The Hellcat II features high viz sights, improved trigger bar and trigger cam, improved extractor and modifications to the frame to ensure easier more reliable feeding form the magazine. The MSRP remains the same starting at $250.

The CZ 75 TS Czechmate Parrot definitely makes a statement, although I am not sure what that statement is, maybe “I love colorful Amazonian Parrots”?

Chris Baker has produced this video review of the Walther PPS.

The Auto Prophet had his Beretta M9 and Remington 870 mag-na-ported …

Arsenal Firearms Second Century Model 2011 is a double barrel 1911 pistol. Well, I say double barrel but its more like two 1911s welded together.