Jim, the 1955 model 380 is the one you see in those cased sets of 25, 380, & 9mm High Power. It is a small, hammerless 380 single stack gun made in Belgium by FN close in size to the Colt Mustang, or the Walther PPK. The Gun Control Act of 1968 stopped it's importation, as it did the PPK ( while permitting import of the slightly larger PP ). It isn't like the BDA 380, or Beretta 84, with their double stack mags.
In 1968 I was 18 years old. The New in box gun has been laying in its box waiting all this time never used or fired. I'm 50 this month so that's 32 years or longer it's been in this country tucked away. That will be my spare, and the used one, again imported before 1968, my carry, I hope. That one is reportedly 80% finish and internally perfect.
( Now I'm going to go look in the mirror and repeat "This is a KNIFE forum" forty or fifty times - no big deal, folks into knives tend to be into guns, too.
But as a moderator *I* really ought to be nudging things back into the mainstream, by asking questions like "What khukuri would James Bond carry to balance out his 7.65 PPK?" Personally I thing it should be a CBKC. )
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[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 07-02-2000).]
