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RDS · 04-06-2019, 10:20 PM

Another thing to consider. Even if the gun matches you have to check the condition of the firing pin. I worked in the industry back in the late 80s and most of the 90s.It was a time when WWII vets reached retirement age, were moving out of the greater NYC area and heading south. A good number of the guns that they brought into us to sell had broken off firing pin tips or no firing pin. The story was always the same. "I picked this up in the war but when the kids came along my wife made me remove the firing pin and I don't remember where I put it" or "I took the firing pin to work and ground the tip off to keep the wife happy. Sad but true.

04-06-2019, 10:20 PM	#14
RDS User Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: NE Posts: 13 Thanks: 34 Thanked 12 Times in 4 Posts	Another thing to consider. Even if the gun matches you have to check the condition of the firing pin. I worked in the industry back in the late 80s and most of the 90s.It was a time when WWII vets reached retirement age, were moving out of the greater NYC area and heading south. A good number of the guns that they brought into us to sell had broken off firing pin tips or no firing pin. The story was always the same. "I picked this up in the war but when the kids came along my wife made me remove the firing pin and I don't remember where I put it" or "I took the firing pin to work and ground the tip off to keep the wife happy. Sad but true.