Posted: 3/10/2004 12:19:44 AM EDT
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On the cover of the March 15th edition of time, there is a soldier with a pistol on his vest. You can only see the grip and part of the backstrap and hammer. Anyone know what kind of pistol it is? |
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Sorry I don't have a link--just saw it on the news stand. It is kind of funny looking--has a swoop back like 1911, could not see if there is a grip safety. Also has scales that are contoured to the grip--which is not a normal 1911 shape. The extra mag looks like it is a double stack. There is a lanyard ring that appears to be one piece with the bottom of the grip. |
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Good question: www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,1101040315,00.html |
| I may be WAY OFF on this, but the shape of the grip resembles an H&K P7. The odd shape combined with the hump on the front strap lead me to believe this. I looked at the current H&K P7M8 on the H&K website and cannot rule this out. Of course, I never heard of any US troops carrying such a pistol into battle . . . |
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It's the trigger group for an M240. Just because it's a holster doesn't make it a bad way to carry other stuff in it, like spare parts. It could also be a staged photo (this is TIME afterall) and they just grabbed some GI who was cleaning a M240 and they just stuck the trigger group in the holster to make it look good. Either way, it's an M240 trigger group. Ross |
| Concur on the M240G trigger group. Just compared photo with the one of the M240G at www.fnhusa.com. |
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I finally saw the magazine cover yesterday and decided it was a mg grip rather than a pistol. Not being up on machine guns I figured an M60 grip. The only thing wrong about the MG42 grip is it has a hole in the rear tang and the grip in the pic doesn't appear to have a hole there. Other wise it's a dead wringer. |