Interest duly noted...
UK shipping usually can run anywhere from $12 to $25 depending on the service used.
Here is the gun in question.
This is the master, I have yet to mold it..I need to drum up a little more interest before I get it going.
Note that the grips will be molded separately and I'll be offering casts of the factory grips for those wanting to switch things up...any aftermarket grip made for this gun will fit as well.
To put the gun in another light beyond the Vasquez connection, here are some other points showing that the M39 is a historically significant handgun in it's own right.
It was S&W's first DA 9mm and the first of it's kind to be produced in the US.
Development began in 1949, with full production starting in 1955 and ending in 1980.
ALL other Smith & Wesson DA autos can be traced back to this gun.
Also which may be of interest to Vietnam era collectors, a number of M39's were modified, often with slide locking bolts. (rendering them "bolt action") and threaded barrels for silencers...for use in clandestine operations. I am however not at liberty to speak to the extent of these operations or the exact manner in which silenced handguns were employed by special operations groups.
I'd be interested in knowing what other movie connections the gun may have. A friend told me it was used by Serpico but it's been ages since I've seen that film.
Matt
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