Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V15 #38
From: Anders Nygren <txmanyg@txm.ericsson.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:33:53 -0600

Javier Perez wrote:
> 
> Ok
> Seeing as Lugers and Volvos are on topic enough for LUG
> I've got a question. Years ago while in a military museum
> in Indonesia I asked the curator's assistant if I could play with the guns.
> To my shocking surprise he said sure! Well, I worked BARS Sterlings
> Thomsons Parabellums, Oddball looking colt autos that I've never seen
> anywhere again and lots of other wonderful pieces. Among them was a
> Chekoslovakian Husquavera if that's how you spell it. Anyway This thing
> looked just like a P38. Until this day I can't figure out if it was a licensed
> or unliscensed copy or something that just looked like a P38. Would anybody know?
> Thanks in advance
> 

Are You sure that it wasn't a swedish Husqvarna? I have no idea what a
P38 is
but from the context I quess that it is a handgun and I seem to remember
that
the standard issue pistols for the swedish army was Husquarna.

/Anders Nygren