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alvin · 04-21-2010, 11:35 PM

In my understanding, the difference between commercial gun and contract gun is: anyone with money can buy commercial guns (if it's legal); contract guns were made specificly for a customer, of course, money was still needed.

Using Mauser as an example, many, if not most, probably most, Mauser commercial guns were sold to foreign military and police. Some were sold to civilians.

sheepherder · 04-22-2010, 07:06 AM

NRA's book of Firearms Assembly has several references to German mothers buying their sons pocket pistols as they go off to war...Many different makes in Germany during both world wars...supposedly mothers wanted their sons to have a hideout pistol for survival...I've always wondered about this, as my mother didn't buy me any pistol when I went off to war...Still, the NRA had to get it from somewhere...

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04-21-2010, 11:35 PM	#1
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	In my understanding, the difference between commercial gun and contract gun is: anyone with money can buy commercial guns (if it's legal); contract guns were made specificly for a customer, of course, money was still needed. Using Mauser as an example, many, if not most, probably most, Mauser commercial guns were sold to foreign military and police. Some were sold to civilians.

04-22-2010, 07:06 AM	#2
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,208 Thanks: 1,425 Thanked 4,474 Times in 2,343 Posts	NRA's book of Firearms Assembly has several references to German mothers buying their sons pocket pistols as they go off to war...Many different makes in Germany during both world wars...supposedly mothers wanted their sons to have a hideout pistol for survival...I've always wondered about this, as my mother didn't buy me any pistol when I went off to war...Still, the NRA had to get it from somewhere...