Guns (with Silencers) of the Cold War Era of the 1960's

Any auto pistol can be fitted with a suppressor, but it will take some smithing to get it done. Many Sigs come from the factory with the option of a threaded barrel to attach a suppressor.

I'm sure that a few hours online with Google, or a trip to a bookstore would give you enough info to keep entertained for hours.

 

Supressed pistols

One of the more popular ones was the Hush Puppy. A Smith and Wesson model 39 equipped with an extended/threaded barrel and supressor. Supposedly the CIA and maybe some Special Forces types used them in Vietnam.

 

You might want to look at the High Standards .22s also.

 

I still have the adaptor for a wartime High Standard .22lr pistol which was issued to some operatives of your wartime OSS organisation. Sadly the pistol disappeared in a deal with a gunshop years ago. As most ofyou are aware silencers here are not prohibited and most .22lr rifles are cut for a sound moderator. Which is a change as generally you guys have a more liberal system than over here.

It's a bit of fun but I would imagine a bit of an expensive waste of time in a full bore handgun, hard to justify the expense. The .22lr is a bit handy, the best option is to keep one eyes open for a Manhurin (French) Walther.22lr Sport. The point of the Manhurin is that the pistol was manufactured with the pocket pistol action,and not the single action of the German counterpart.The barrel can be cut back and threaded for the Parker hale sound moderator.Mount a front sight on the slide, change the grips and off you go...............

 

Another flashback...

The man from U.N.C.L.E. used a tricked out P38...I had the whole setup as a kid back in the day...had a silencer, a shoulder stock and scope...a badge...membership card...all packaged with pictures of the two hottest secret agents since James Bond on the box....

Napoleon Solo ( Robert Vaughn )
&
Illya Kuryakin ( David McCallum )

 

Brit living in Bretagne, France only because I couldn't get residency in Texas! Moved the business back to Europe about five years ago, but couldn't think of moving to the UK (they banned handguns!), so I ended up here where they don't..............

 

No, David................I had just watched a movie, 'Snatch' and took the name from one of the characters. Texas is a long story, but here is the short version. On retiring form the Police Service I did a bit of CP work but realised that I am getting a bit long in the tooth for it, I was asked to do a few talks on my spe******t duties whilst in the Police, which was dogs, operational deployment and training. In addition the inclusion of dogs within the tactical team. (building/open country searching and tracking etc.).

One thing led to another and I end up setting up a small company providing European dogs and training to police and law enforcement agencies in the US, Africa and Europe. I provide Police Patrol (GP) Dogs, and single purpose drug and explosive detectors. We have three staff Bomb Detectors, two working Cocker Spaniels and a duel trained Patrol/Explo GSD, and contract private searches at corporate and goverment level.

At the time I was working with a number of agencies in Texas and I had a few friends in the gun world out there so I moved the training centre near Abilene. I engaged a few lawyers who took a good deal of money and achieved absolutly nothing by way of a residency card.

Most of us can remember where we where at the time of the attack on the Twin Towers, I was having breakfast at the Northside Cafe, Anson with a couple of officers on an initial drug dog course. It was at this time I realised that it was simply not going to happen so we packed up and moved back to Europe. As I mentioned they have almost banned private ownership of guns in the UK, so going back home was not an option, we ended up here in France. But, I do miss the States I was always made extremely welcome and I look forward to my next visit.