Gibson, Ron Ws info is right on, with possibly one exception not know to him. I know of an expert restorer in Calif. who has reconverted many of these from the 9mm back to the 7.65mm long receiver configuration, by rewelding the receiver and near perfect refinishing. The only way to tell if your's is all original, is to magnafux the receiver. But in this case, a perfect restoration is almost as good as an original. As has been said here many times before, buy the gun not the story. TH
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