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Ballester-Molina Pistols from German Pocket Battleship Armor?

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There is an old gun shop tale that Argentine Ballester-Molina pistols were made form the salvaged armor plate of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. The Graf Spee was scuttled in the Rio de la Plata estuary in December 1939, only a few miles from the HAFDASA factory in Buenos Aires, and Argentina did not have the domestic steel reserves to make enough pistols...

See Michael Parker's full article on this, including the exact results of his metallurgical analysis, here:

https://www.americanrifleman.o....rg/articles/2014/1/3

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m17glock
m17glock 4 years ago

thats the kind of back story/history i love .

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