The Ultramatic LV is a semi-automatic pistol that was made by Gabriel & Vojta Sportwaffen Gmbh, later by Wolf Sportwaffen Gmbh of Austria. Its design is based around the CZ 75 pistol with a fixed slide and is chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum round. It was designed by Dietmar Vallentinitsch. The Ultramatic pistol shares an external resemblance with the Colt 1911 but has a fixed barrel and fixed slide. What moves is an internal bolt, retarded after firing by two locking studs, in a fashion similar to that of the German MG-42 machine gun. Ultramatic called this their "torus segment locking system".
A relatively large pistol, the Ultramatic is about 10 inches long and 6 inches high with a 6-inch barrel. It has conventional double action and a staggered-column magazine holding 17 to 18 rounds or a ten-round magazine to comply with US import regulations. It also has a manual safety combined with a decocker that conforms to IPSC rules.
The pistol was offered in 9mm as well as .38 Super, .40 S&W and .45 ACP. Production started in 1995 but the company closed in 1998, after manufacturing became too expensive for the price they could earn for a pistol. Elements of this pistol design resurfaced as the prototype for the Hogue Avenger.
A relatively large pistol, the Ultramatic is about 10 inches long and 6 inches high with a 6-inch barrel. It has conventional double action and a staggered-column magazine holding 17 to 18 rounds or a ten-round magazine to comply with US import regulations. It also has a manual safety combined with a decocker that conforms to IPSC rules.
The pistol was offered in 9mm as well as .38 Super, .40 S&W and .45 ACP. Production started in 1995 but the company closed in 1998, after manufacturing became too expensive for the price they could earn for a pistol. Elements of this pistol design resurfaced as the prototype for the Hogue Avenger.
The Variara submachine gun (in Italian Mitra Variara) is an insurgency weapon clandestinely designed and made by the Italian Resistance, which might have originated from a difficulty in getting automatic weapons by whatever means, including theft or Allied airdrops in the Piedmont area sometime in 1944.
The real circumstances of its genesis are still unclear. Hearsay has it, that it was created by FIAT workers with experience in gun making, and that the name Variara came from a partisan unit which, in turn, had been named after one of its casualties. At any rate, unlike earlier scratch-built guns (basically Sten Gun copies), the Variara was a completely original project mixing different characteristics borrowed from a wide array of contemporary firearms:
* the bolt, the receiver and the firing mechanism of the Sten Gun,
* the folding stock and magazines of the FNAB-43,
* the safety of the MP40
* the dual-trigger firing mechanism (single shot and full auto) from the Beretta Model 38.
Details on length of service and production figures are uncertain and maybe impossible to make clear, since documents are scarce and only a handful of Variara submachine guns are preserved in Italian museums.
The real circumstances of its genesis are still unclear. Hearsay has it, that it was created by FIAT workers with experience in gun making, and that the name Variara came from a partisan unit which, in turn, had been named after one of its casualties. At any rate, unlike earlier scratch-built guns (basically Sten Gun copies), the Variara was a completely original project mixing different characteristics borrowed from a wide array of contemporary firearms:
* the bolt, the receiver and the firing mechanism of the Sten Gun,
* the folding stock and magazines of the FNAB-43,
* the safety of the MP40
* the dual-trigger firing mechanism (single shot and full auto) from the Beretta Model 38.
Details on length of service and production figures are uncertain and maybe impossible to make clear, since documents are scarce and only a handful of Variara submachine guns are preserved in Italian museums.
The Cristobal Model 3 (Pistola Ametralladora Cristóbal Modelo 3) was a battle rifle designed by Pál Király and manufactured in the Dominican Republic by the Armeria San Cristóbal. The weapon was chambered in the 7.62×51mm NATO round and fed from FN FAL magazines. Model 3 in 1961 as a competitor with the Belgian FN FAL, an assault rifle using the more powerful 7.62×51mm NATO caliber. By 1961 service showed that the Modelo 2 overheated in automatic fire. The improved Modelo 3 (or 'Mk 3') discarded the original wooden hand guard for a perforated sheetmetal fore-end and the gun could accept an FN export-pattern knife bayonet. A number of guns were also made with a tubular folding butt. This rifle had the M14 type gas tube and regulator underneath the barrel. The ammunition box was vertical, not inclined like the carbine. After Trujillo's death (assassination), the new Dominican government was not interested in Dominican weapon manufacturing and the M3 was not adopted by the Dominican Armed Forces.
The GMC Pistol is a semi-automatic pistol of Argentine origin. The pistols were manufactured by Garb, Monetti y Cia city of Mar del Plata in a factory located in Almafuerte 3047 and covering a period from late 1960 to early 1970.
Overview
The pistols were of fair quality and unsafe operation with aluminum body and a steel barrel embeded within. All came painted black with plastic handles that except some luxury models were made with silver or gold termination and white plastic handles. Basically there were two models, the "Super 67" short barrel and the "SS" with longer barrel. The Super 67 model with a 78 mm barrel and a weight of 430 gr. The SS model with 175 mm half barrel of 95 mm and a weight of 450 gr. Unless these differences both models were identical and had a height of 118 mm and 8 rounds in the magazine.
Overview
The pistols were of fair quality and unsafe operation with aluminum body and a steel barrel embeded within. All came painted black with plastic handles that except some luxury models were made with silver or gold termination and white plastic handles. Basically there were two models, the "Super 67" short barrel and the "SS" with longer barrel. The Super 67 model with a 78 mm barrel and a weight of 430 gr. The SS model with 175 mm half barrel of 95 mm and a weight of 450 gr. Unless these differences both models were identical and had a height of 118 mm and 8 rounds in the magazine.