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A 1941 D-45 (serial number not stated, no other information given) is illustrated here. [130] A 1941 D-45 (serial number not stated), refinished with "multiple professionally repaired top cracks" and other issues was being offered for sale by Gruhn Guitars in 2007, inventory no. AA7628, asking price $85,000. [131]
.45 ACP.45 Colt.44-40 Winchester.38-40 Winchester.32-20 Winchester.38 Long Colt.22 Long Rifle.38 Special.357 Magnum.44 Special United States: 1872 Continental Weapons Griffon Continental Weapons .45 ACP South Africa: CZ 97B: Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod.45 ACP Czech Republic: 1997 DOSS SH.A.R. Psh-45 DOSS SH.A.R. .45 ACP Ukraine: FitzGerald ...
For these reasons, in 1920, the Peters ammunition company introduced the .45 Auto Rim. This rimmed version of the .45 ACP allowed both versions of the Model 1917 revolver to fire reliably without the clips. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Colt and Smith & Wesson 1917s were available through mail order companies at bargain prices. [11]
The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model adopted in March 1911, and Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the improved M1911A1 model which entered service in 1926. The designation changed to Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1 in the Vietnam War era. [10]
The first D-45 was a dreadnought guitar based on the Martin D-28 with luxury ornamentation (the "45" designation), [2] made especially for Gene Autry who, in 1933, ordered "the biggest, fanciest Martin he could." [3] This guitar is now encased in glass in the Gene Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California. [4]
The first Omni dispensed with the Browning 1911-style swinging link in favour of the Browning 1935-type fixed cam to lock the breech. Apart from the method of locking the breech, other features of the pistol were highly innovative. Three new magazine designs were tried. Omni I was a .45 ACP pistol with a single stack 7-round magazine.
The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun , but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter, at the expense of accuracy. [ 12 ]
The Smith & Wesson Model 3 is a single-action, cartridge-firing, top-break revolver produced by Smith & Wesson (S&W) from around 1870 to 1915, and was recently again offered as a reproduction by Smith & Wesson and Uberti.