Ever since I got my Romanian Tokarev a few weeks ago, it has become apparent to me that collecting these pistols could be an interesting hobby. And I am not talking about getting Russian/Chinese/Romanian/Yugo/whatever variations.
Rather, since getting mine, and see examples of others in both pics and gunstore shelves, I have observed that there seem to be dozens of different ways that an aftermarket safety was put onto these things in order to import them into the country.
Some of these safeties look quite good, some look downright horrid, and some of them even look like they could be made abidextrous just by modifying the safety itself and not the gun any further. (Of course, I have no clue as to how functional and/or user friendly the different ones are.) Then there are the ones the GI's brought back from Korea and Vietnam that don't have a safety on them at all.
If the purpose of gathering a collection of the same type of gun is to have varients of it, then this pistol certainly opens itself up to that criteria, even if it's an artificial one.
Anyone have any thoughts on the idea?
I never thought getting into Zoot Shootiung would open up another door for enhancing my gun collection, but it looks like it just might....