What say ya'll ?

[alvin]

Interarms is equivalent of Stoeger in our era, not a surplus dealer, mainly sells new guns. It's a postwar commercial P38. I think it's better than those surplus dumped from Germany, at least it's original (could be original), all those surplus that I have met were refinished ugly stuff, but surplus is usually in $200-300 range, a little bit cheaper. So plus and minus. It's a well built gun, I fired 5000+ rounds from my Interarms when ammo was cheap. Averagely, the malfunction (all were failure to feed and failure to eject) interval was 412.

[Vlim]

Actually, Interarms was a surplus dealer and effectively one of the largest of it's kind in the 1950-1990 time frame.

After the restrictions on the import of surplus guns, Interarms contacted several old world suppliers, like Walther and Mauser and arranged for new production, as these were not subjected to any import schemes.

Walther in turn used Manurhin (France) as a subcontractor for many years, when it was forbidden to produce pistols in Germany.

[suum cuique]

Originally Posted by Vlim

Actually, Interarms was a surplus dealer and effectively one of the largest of it's kind in the 1950-1990 time frame.

After the restrictions on the import of surplus guns, Interarms contacted several old world suppliers, like Walther and Mauser and arranged for new production, as these were not subjected to any import schemes.

Walther in turn used Manurhin (France) as a subcontractor for many years, when it was forbidden to produce pistols in Germany.

Manurhin produced for example alot of PPKs

[alvin]

Originally Posted by Vlim

Actually, Interarms was a surplus dealer and effectively one of the largest of it's kind in the 1950-1990 time frame.

After the restrictions on the import of surplus guns, Interarms contacted several old world suppliers, like Walther and Mauser and arranged for new production, as these were not subjected to any import schemes.

Walther in turn used Manurhin (France) as a subcontractor for many years, when it was forbidden to produce pistols in Germany.

Thanks. Now it's a better business.

How can those companys like Century, Cherry, B-West, KFS (?).... still import those surplus in like crazy these days? mainly from Eastern Europe, originally prepared for the 3rd World War, now all dumping here with import mark.


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[Edit] Sorry for the above. I was a little bit upset to hear this. The bright shiny image of Interarms the Great, collapsed in my mind for half an hour Not a problem anymore. Now my mood returns to normal.