Nazi 22 caliber belt buckle gun

[MAP]

And now for something completely different

Rare Nazi 22 caliber belt buckle

Rare Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol Chambered in .22 LR - Guns & Ammo

Sorry, only a link. Working from a cell phone.

Michael

[Gwar]

And "Now for something completely different" Safe travels Mike and family !! G

[MAP]

Thanks G-Man,

Cloudy with a chance of rain today in HK. Tomorrow off to Sri Lanka.

[Gwar]

Just be careful... G

[Larboard]

Looks like it might be for real? Comments from the "experts" below are priceless, as usual...


bln maker code is for Brüder Assmann in Leibnitz/Steiermark.

[rbminis]

4th Reich. IMO
Ralph.

[Larboard]

Gee, that would come as a huge surprise... I mean, it must be real, one sold at around "$20k gavel price". Surely people with this kind of money are too smart to be taken?

Btw, Nazi memorabilia is now a $40 million a year industry, whether that separates real from sales of fakes I don't know.

There's probably more of it floating around now than at any time in history, certainly more than there was during the time period itself...

[Wagriff]

This idiotic thing surfaces every so many years. I remember first seeing it back in the early 70's in Guns and Ammo magazine. I notice now, that despite the inside of it looking the same, that the buckle itself looks more fancy and dolled up. Apparently, G&A must have forgotten that they had run an almost identical story on the same thing 30 years before. It has been debunked over and over again, and yet every time someone prints an article on it again, people begin believing in it again. I never could quite imagine a Russian soldier capturing an SS Officer and Not noticing that after he had disarmed him, that the prisoner was standing there fiddling with a gigantic fancy belt buckle and looking desperate...

[mauser9]

Wonder if they ever made one in 8MM mauser.

[TrondK]

I remember this buckle from a old very big and heavy "bible" i had in my younger days. It was called "weapons of the world" (or something like that). I probably spend 1 year of my life total to study this book. Thank Odin i stopped collecting weapons, i had very bad hoarding tendencies i recall.....

Edit:

Now i remembered, it was called "Small arms of the world". A big and heavy blue book from the early 70s maybe?!