[The KG9 Kid]

"... You know about the Canadian NAACO *Brigadeer*? Or the Australian Owen [no relation to the top-fed WWII SMG of the same name]..."

That hideous thing looks like the 'Planet Of The Apes' version of a TEC-9.

Here's the Planet Of The Apes version of the 'Detective Special':

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That hideous thing looks like the 'Planet Of The Apes' version of a TEC-9.

Not hardly; more akin to a Browning Hi-Power combined with a S&W M59, but in a hotter .45 caliber number [think of a 1950s cross between the .45 ACP and the .44 AutoMag cartridge] with a single action trigger, and aluminum slide with steel breech insert [like the Sig 226]. There was even a shoulder-stocked selective fire version available.

Yeah, the prototypes were kind of clunky. So was the prototype Browning GP.