Cut away Broom on Ebay

[alvin]

Originally Posted by cdmech

Is the seller's description accurate?

Probably very accurate. On picture, the hammer was from a selective-fire pistol.

Brian of Federal Ord visited Beijing in early 1980s, with the help of a Hong Kong middleman (a surplus arm broker), he imported many C96s into the U.S. Not a few hundred, not a few thousand. Even about 20-30 years later, at least 70% circulated C96s on gunbroker.com were probably imported by him. He must made lots of money in this.

Chinese probably exported 200,000 C96s. Majority went to the U.S. Minority went to the Europe. Without systemically studying this gun as a collectible in the past, as a historical big user of this gun, Chinese also knows 6-shot being rare, Conehammer being scarce, etc, looks like most of those were preserved.