We once had a customer come into Guncraft to buy some ammunition for a handgun. The customer-plainly, a "working girl"- had no idea of the caliber or anything. The fellow waiting on her (I think it was Tony) got her to bring in the magazine for the pistol so we could at least make a good guess as to caliber. When she did, the magazine was a poorly constructed zinc casting which, nonetheless, was reminiscent of a Browning Hi- Power mag. We had our suspicions about the pistol at this point and Tony finally convinced her to bring in the pistol in question. She went out and got the gun from her "business manager" and, sure enough, it was a replica Browning. Told it was not a real gun she got a concerned look on her face and said, "Boy, is he gonna be pissed! He just paid four hundred bucks for this thing!"
A police member told us somebody had been selling quite few of these things in Calgary at the time. He felt the dealer would be identified when he was found in an alley with on of these replicas doing duty as a suppository! Regards, Bill.