Seriously Stumped - Pistol ID

[gwhysow]

Along with a great many here I'm a big fan of Tactical Life publications; after seeing an article online, I was left to wonder...

What on earth is that pretty little thing in the bottom right hand corner?

 

[Winchester-1897]

Along with a great many here I'm a big fan of Tactical Life publications; after seeing an article online, I was left to wonder...

What on earth is that pretty little thing in the bottom right hand corner?

What right hand corner?

 

[Ryan500]

Its part of a red x.

 

[johnny88]

It is very elusive and stealth like. Hard to say, hmm….

 

[drache]

That is certainly a weird looking handgun to say the least.

1911 grips and magwell and maybe trigger but the slide is all funky. Some sort of .22 maybe? The suppressor and the reflex like sight on top....

 

[heavenIsAlie]

i dont think id call it pretty, but it sure is interesting

 

[drache]

It's a 1911 with a Tactical .22 conversion slide. At least my guess looking at pictures online...

 

[prproulx]

Why can some see the pic but others can't?

 

[tjhaile]

It looks like some sort of Hammerli .22 target pistol (208, 211, 214, or 215) somehow adapted to take 1911 grips.

 

[Pancake81]

Definately a glock! Possibly crossed with a S&W performance center.

Yup. Thats the new 327!!

 

[mmatt]

Ahhhh! You beat me Pancake! That's what I was gonna say!

(well, not exactly, but close enough!)

 

[prproulx]

Oh okay I get it now! That's the new secret CIA platform that kills you five times before you hit the ground.

 

[Gibbs505]

What gun???????????

 

[john simmons]

On very very close inspection i have decided it'a a ........oh wait, sorry that's spray from the last time i sneezed on my lap top.

 

[smellie]

Based on a High Standard Model HD made for the US military, mostly betwen 1943 and 1946. THIS is the gun that FDR asked for, for use as an assassination weapon in Occupied Europe. The first one built was brought into his office, loaded and fired 10 rounds into the wastebasket. Roosevelt didn't hear a thing. He asked for the gun to be left with him, called a freakin' press conference the next day and made it public! Guess what the Germans spent the rest of the war looking for: totally-silent .22 semi-auto pistols.

Don't bother looking for one of these little sweethearts. You are just a serf: you get to PAY for things like this but Big Brother sez you aren't responsible enough to HAVE one.
.

 

[Pyroman]

I'm with the opinion that it's a Hammerli .22, like a model 208 or so, that someone has just slapped on the 1911 grip panels, the sight and suppressor just for cosmetic purposes for the photo. It is not at all the Hi-Standard pistol.

 

[tjhaile]

The article, to which this picture is attached, is about the US Army Marksmanship Unit's custom shop:

http://www.tactical-life.com/online/tactical-weapons/warfighter-weaponry/

I think it is more than just something slapped together for a picture. Somebody would have had to have gone to the trouble of making an adapter to take the 1911 grips and I don't think any of them were made with that short of a barrel.