Really, this just speaks for itself. Thanks to gotm4 of M4Carbine.net for the pics:
How in the world did someone put that revolver, in that condition, in a box without realizing it was completely and utterly FUBAR? Screwing up a machining process I can accept. It happens. But letting something like this get through your Quality Control process? Unforgivable.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
I am definately interested in purchasing that revolver, what a conversation piece! One of a kind.
Looks like a snubby for Bianchi Cup or something.
This is not surprising and is why I don’t trust their products. They can make a perfectly good gun one day and let this out the door the next.
My first centerfire handgun was a Taurus PT99 and it went bang every time but was never “as good as” a Beretta in the accuracy dept. Never should have believed the guy at the gun shop who sold it to me.
Kirk — A PT99 was my first pistol! Went back to Taurus twice (rear sight kept falling off) before I sold it in favor of a USP40. That was fifteen years ago.
That’s just ridiculous…
My first thought was “What’s wrong? It’s just another goofy-looking new model from Taurus. Heyyy… waitaminnit…“
Are you sure it isn’t a new model aimed at the videogame crowd?
Ok, does this thing also shoot airsoft pellets? Hey who shoved the ratchet wrench bit in the front?
Hey I think that might even be legal in Canada!
Looks like the didn’t cut off the end that locks into the lathe… How that got through is unforgivable. Unless someone thought that it looked kinda cool. Which it kinda does.
This really isnt too uncommon we got one of these at the shop I work at., the end of muzzle is crowned. Something about importing is what the distributor said
Ah!
Got it.
As I understood it, they used to import all their J-frame-sized guns with 3- or 4-inch barrels, unscrew the long barrels, thread in the 2″ tubes, and ship the longer barrels back to Brazil for the next batch. That’s got to exact a certain toll in cracked frames and buggered threads as a cost of doing business.
Now it appears that they bring them in with the long unfinished nubbin hanging off the end and cut and crown them in Miami. Some must have gotten past the “cut and crown” part. Now it makes sense.
Is that a step-cut for mounting an M203? 😉
No, that’s so they make enough points under GCA ’68 for BATFE to let them in on a Form 6. Granted, that’s not as funny…
Unless they’re getting around GCA68 by calling it a powered bit driver. Now that would be funny.
And more useful than a Taurus revolver.
I’m very confused;what is it????
The pistol is trying to compensate for a small barrel.
You know, I had a PT99 that was absurdly accurate. I was putting entire magazines in a nickel sized hole at 20 yards with that thing. I took a chance on a .357 CIA revolver, and that thing is awesome accurate and built like a tank.
Then I see this. Weird.
sweet heater.
The Fish: Tam figured it out.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 restricted what guns could be imported into the US. For pistols, there is a “point” system that takes into account various features that meet some arbitrary standard. Here is the complete list for pistols and revolvers:
http://www.recguns.com/Sources/IIG6.html
Note that the minimum revolver barrel length required for importation is 3″. So these Taurus revolvers are shipped into the US with these crazy barrels attached. Once they are in the country, somebody cuts off the extra barrel length. So what must have happened is, one of these just slipped through the cracks and was passed on to the distributor without going through the cut-off step. However, this is how ALL of this model of revolver left the factory in Brazil for export to the US.
Glock does things like this too to import some of their subcompact models. They don’t meet the “points” requirements on their own, so they are shipped with big, adjustable target sights for an extra 5 or 10 points to meet the importability test. Once they are in the US, the target sights are replaced with the standard Glock sights.
Walther also had to create the PPK/S for sale in the US after the GCA ’68 passed. The original PPK was too small by some tiny amount, so they made the frame larger and sold it in the US as the PPK/S.
In other words, this Taurus demonstrates the BS that foreign gun makers have to go through to import into the US. It was manufactured properly in Brazil, but it was not finished in the US like it should have been.
taurus the cia 650 is a good gun and the pt100 40acp is the bomb
“Glock does things like this too to import some of their subcompact models. They don’t meet the “points” requirements on their own, so they are shipped with big, adjustable target sights for an extra 5 or 10 points to meet the importability test. Once they are in the US, the target sights are replaced with the standard Glock sights.”
Incidentally, you might notice that the compact Glocks have ridged triggers, unlike the smooth triggers on the full-size guns. These are “target triggers” in the BATFE point system. Also, the thumb divots in the Glock frame came about at the same time as the introduction of the subcompacts: Yup, “target grips”. With the cheesy adjustable sights on board, the G26 is a veritable “target pistol”, at least according to the points system.
“How in the world did someone put that revolver, in that condition, in a box without realizing it was completely and utterly FUBAR?”
The same way Springfield put a 1911 in a box that, when removed from the box, had a thumb safety that could not be engaged, a grip safety that when depressed had to be pried back up, a a right grip panel that fell off when the gun was picked up, and so on. The same way S&W put a gun in the obox (revolver) with a barrel that was not tightened and when you picked up the gun the front sight promptly rotatede to the horizontal position instead of vertical. Make enough guns and eventually some of them are going to get through all the controls.
Weird. They can do whatever they need to do to import guns, and I still won’t ever buy one. I had a PT99 that broke the locking block almost down the center at 600 rounds. It took them three months to get a replacement to me. Never again.
The last three Taurus revolvers I have tried have been dogs. The last was a CIA in .357 that was completely out of time, then after it came back from the factory it wouldn’t lock up at all.
Kind if sad since the PT99AF I used to own was superb.
Cool! Want!