Sarco Imports - Any Prior Discussion?

[Edward Tinker]

Well, actually those are two different shipments.

VOPO is post war, so it is unlikely the Russians captured them during WW2 - does not mean they did not help the East Germans sell them later.

But Russian guns, with or without the X have certain grips on them and generally stored for 50+ years

Vopo were refurbished for border guards, internal security, etc and were used during the russian occupation - their grips are different looking than the russian grips

Story is that the russian guns were either dipped in a preservative and then stored in oil, thus ruining any wood grips or these grips were swapped out with these plastic grips either before storage or after but before sale

Ed

[alanint]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

Well, actually those are two different shipments.

VOPO is post war, so it is unlikely the Russians captured them during WW2 - does not mean they did not help the East Germans sell them later.

Ed, the Country of East German was formed out of the areas of the former Nazi Germany that were captured and under Soviet control. ALL ordnance within this area would have had to have initially been under Soviet control, by definition. I think it is fair to say that the East German police was supplied out of captured Russian stocks, otherwise, where would these pistols have come from?
I doubt the Russians would have allowed any stray ordnance to sit around in areas they controlled.