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Section 8: Handguns
Subject: Fancy Nork Msg# 1136735

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Stu Wayne

Joined 4/4/2000

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

Model of The 1911A1

Indeed! Roll Eyes

the safety lock ws a Colt commercial type rather than the USGI tab type.

How could I forget that! I have Mike's on my Springfield 1911!

Image below from Stu Wayne - Image Title: Thumb Safeties
Image Info: Left safety is from a Colt Series 70 Government Model. Center one is from a Norinco 1911A1 and right unit is from an Springfield "Loaded" 1911-A1. The Norinco safety looks very much like the Colt except not as smoothly rounded, where the Springfield unit is the extended type and would wipe itself off when the pistol was holstered!Norinco safety courtesy of Mike Davies

3 Different 1911 Thumb Safeties
Stu Wayne

It is about the guns. If I recall, it was Clinton who outlawed importation of such destructive military weapons as this 1911 from China! Roll Eyes Their nice 1897 shotgun clone was (is) still legal to import here, though. Guess he forgot that the 1897 was a WW1 trench broom...

Stu

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
The Norinco Model of The 1911A1 was a clone of the USGI M1911A1 with one exception, the safety lock ws a Colt commercial type rather than the USGI tab type. A friend from Compuserve bought one at a gun show here in Dayton and since he wasn't a 1911 guy we took it back to my house where I detail-stripped it. It was a true clone in every other way, and quite good, I might add. It was greased with that somewhat diferous Chinese version of Cosmoline, but that stuff does present rust quite wll during the long, humid boat ride over here.

Today Nornico offers far more than the basic GI-style 1911s, which our friends in Cannada enjoy while we do not. I find this irritating because it isn't about the politics of the PRC--we import a crapload of other Chinese products, so it's clearly about guns.

Norinco also offers many other firearms, most of them copies of other well-known firearms. In general, Nork guns are good quality, though someties parts are not sufficiently hardened. The Polytech M14S I once owned developed a reputation for soft bolts which contributed to my selling it.

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