Flare Gun Forum

A high quality PDF of the 1968 edition of the Czech military manual for the vz 44/67 flare pistol can be downloaded at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/63418290/26-5mm-signalni-pistole-vz44-67-1967 The manual is in Czech, of course, but the illustrations are still interesting for those of us unable to enj...

I thought this blue anodized flare gun is a marine pistol, and that the Air Force flare gun (which I thought was the MAB 40mm 62-LTX) looked like the below. Notice the different shape of the frame.

Bill

The "R" grips are from the MAB R-22 target pistol, made in .22short & .22LR caliber, which began production in July 1954. When this pistol was imported into the United States, MAB's US importer & distributor (WAC, or Winfield Arms Co, of Los Angeles) followed its usual practice of ...