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Talk:Nambu 1902

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Additional Variants

Small-Model pistol sword

In the 1920s, four Small-Model pistols were heavily modified in an experiment to create a pistol sword. These "Baby Nambus" featured a significantly longer grip (which also gives them notably higher-capacity magazines, though the actual capacity is unknown) and a guntou blade built into the right-side grip panel. At least one of the pistols had its trigger guard replaced with a large full-hand sabre-like guard, while another had a shorter barrel and no sights. Although presumably highly unwieldy, the blade does not mechanically affect the pistol and thus it should otherwise function like a regular Nambu. Similar experiments with the Nambu Type 14 were conducted a few years later as well.

At least one of these pistols evidently survived, as one is known to exist in a US military museum collection, though the pistol is missing virtually all of its components, leaving only the frame, barrel, grips, and blade. A photo of this pistol (seen below) has been fairly widely circulated on the internet, and due to it being a photo of the non-functional "hulk" of a pistol, this has created potentially even more confusion in Western circles about whether this was actually a functional pistol (which it was).

Nambu Small-Model pistol sword - 7x20mm Nambu. The features described above can be seen on these two pistols.
Nambu Small-Model pistol sword - 7x20mm Nambu. Surviving Nambu pistol sword in American possession.

Additional Images

Nambu Large-Model (Kou) "Grandpa Nambu" with shoulder stock - 8x22mm Nambu

Screen-Used

Nambu Small-Model "Baby Nambu" - 7x20mm Nambu. This was Takumi Bando's gun used on-set in Letters from Iwo Jima (carried and fired by him).

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