[John Sabato]

I would think that the powerful "pounding" that the toggle ramps would receive during the firing cycle would be too destructive for this gun to last very long. I would really love to have to chance to examine one... or at least read an evaluation of one from a reliable source.

Is there anyone among us that can translate the Russian website cited by Sanya in the first posting above... I would love to know what it says.

AN UPDATE: I found that if you go to the Babelfish language translator at this URL:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

and change the translation to be "Russian to English" and insert the URL provided by Sanya above into the space provided for it, you can get as reasonable and English translation of virutally the entire webpage article as you could expect to be made by a computer on the Polymer Parabellum. I would have cut and pasted the entire translation here, but I believe that this would be a massive copyright violation so just try what I have suggested and read it for yourself... Very Interesting!

Here are some of the "fundamental characteristics" of the Polymer Parabellum as mentioned in the article.

Developer: Alphonse- Peter rill', Grossberlinkhofen, Germany

Type of the Mechanism semiautomatic pistol with togglelock

The trigger mechanism has a 2800 gram trigger pull.

Caliber 9 mm "Luger"

Magazine capacity, double row staggered 18 rounds

Length of Barrel: 100mm

Weight of pistol, 980g

Cost 1500 Deutschmarks (according to the preliminary estimate)