Posted on 04/13/2017 11:50:29 AM PDT by w1n1
The Japanese Nambu Type 94 Pistol is one dangerous sidearm. When loaded, this pistol was known to fire at the worst possible times. Back in World War Two Japananese forces used the Nambu Type 94 Pistol as their service pistol. The Nambu Type 94 Pistol was chambered for the weak 8mm Nambu cartridge. The magazine capacity was 6 rounds.
When loaded if the pistol could fire accidentally if the exposed sear bar gets pushed. Holstering a loaded Nambu Type 94 Pistol could cause a nasty accident when that sear bar gets bumped. Now that is scary for us concealed carry fans. See the Nambu 94 pistol footage here.
Japanese small arms of WW II was a mess; crappy weapons,and different calibers.
As far as the exposed sear bar goes, unless you go out of your way to push hard on it, it doesn't get in the way of the pistol's function.
Want to talk about useless? How about those .500 S&W revolvers? Or the Automag .44?
My Father-in-Law gave me his WWII bring back type 14 Nambu. It was beautifully made and accurate. It had the best trigger I have ever seen on a military sidearm.
Their pre-war rifles were also fine firearms. As the war drug on, the quality declined.
I do agree with the odd number types of ammo. I think there were several different types of their .31 caliber ammo. Some for one type of machine gun, some for another and some for rifles.
What do you get when you combine the most dangerous handgun with the least effective cartridge?
Chico And The Man was a good show for its time. Freddy Prinze died too young.
I am a particular fan of their Type 89 50mm Grenade Projector ("Knee Mortar"): fired a 1 1/4 pound spin-stabilized round with almost a pound of TNT filler and excellent fragmentation out to 325 meters accurately. According to some sources, accounted for nearly 60% of our Pacific War casualties. Darn thing could also fire their standard hand grenade by adding a screw-on booster out to 150m. We need a new version of that thing right now.
They started the war looking good...well made, good machining and finish work, etc.
As the war progressed, the work went literally to shit.
But as far as the Nambu Type 94...that exposed sear bar made it a killer from the start.
It is amazing to me that a culture such as the Japanese, heavily based in "face" and an ingrained sense of always doing the best thing, would have allowed the 94 to even get into production.
If one studies the entirety of why Japan lost, the haughtiness of the "ruling" class, with their sense of infallibility, certainly goes a long way to explain why the crap they turned out for their soldiers to conduct war with, was allowed to continue.
You are lucky, my dad sold the one my uncle brought back from the pacific. He said the side bar was much too dangerous. According to lore, it was used to fire the weapon when handed off in a ruse surrender.
I daresay you posted to the wrong thread.
CC
After reading Unintended Consequences (which may possess the greatest last 1/3 of any novel, ever), I want a 20mm Solothurn.
Those have a use. The use is making my arthritic wrists flare up while shooting bears.
What do you get when you combine the most dangerous handgun with the least effective cartridge?
Yes- I think that post may have been intended for the Walther .380 thread. Good show from my youth, though!
I wonder if the weapon ever discharged by a guy being jostled against the wrong thing?
IIRC, the Ruger Mk I .22 pistol was based on the Finnish Lahti.
An M-16?
If, for some silly reason I’m out annoying bears, I’ll carry an M1A instead of an eight pound pistol. The bear will be much more impressed.
Nah; it was the Type 14 that was the model. Bill Ruger even said so.
The Lahti’s an overweight pig compared to the Luger it was modeled after.
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