Auto-darkening, active LCD shooting glasses coming in May from Beretta. Support the channel, get free stuff, join live streams, gain early access, and more! https://www.patreon.com/JeremyGunsGear ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHgSf_mlcig

Full write-up on TTAG here: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/06/daniel-zimmerman/obscure-object-of-desire-tanfoglio-mossad/ If you know anything about the history yourself or can point to some documented history about these Tanfoglio MOSSAD pistols, please put it in the comments or send me a message! ...I'm going to ask some Israelis whom I know, and hopefully I can nail down something a bit more solid in the near future... Enjoy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History on this pistol is pretty thin. I was never really able to lock anything down, unfortunately, and reports are varied. Apparently, before Israel was producing any of its own pistols (before IMI was), it contracted with Italian firm Tanfoglio (that's Tan-FO-lio), manufacturers of high quality CZ clones. In fact, IMI's first Jericho pistol was built mostly using parts made by Tanfoglio. That's the solid history. Now, the Israeli Mossad is akin to the U.S.' CIA -- intelligence gathering, including legit spies, and trying to deny that they do "wet work." Many people claim that this series of Tanfoglio-manufactured "MOSSAD" pistols was issued to Mossad agents for their personal, daily protection use. These pistols were NOT used on "missions" of any sort (though some owners like to claim otherwise). This seems pretty obvious, as that would be about as likely as CIA agents carrying guns that said "CIA" on them during ops. However, some people say these guns really had nothing to do with the Mossad at all, and that they were issued to police and available for purchase by civilians. So this is the shaky history -- what/who these specific guns were actually for. Maybe it was both Mossad and police, and then later sold to the public as surplus. Who knows. Certainly some were imported into the U.S. as surplus, and one eventually found its way to me. Only some of these pistols have this "Israel Shooting Association" crest on them. I think this almost certainly proves civilian ownership at some point. Maybe the Israel Shooting Association purchased them surplus from the Mossad/police? Again, I just don't know. If you're familiar with the CZ 75, you would be familiar with this pistol. It has a firing pin block like a CZ 75B, and 75B magazines fit and function flawlessly in it. There is a minor difference in the mag release setup, which actually involves the trigger bar a bit, but the rest of the parts look basically identical. I can completely detail strip this gun and completely detail strip my CZ 75 SP-01, and not notice a real difference in any of the other parts, pieces, or process. Yet almost none of the parts can be swapped between the two guns. Most of them are different in such small ways that it isn't noticeab ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2SFPtXz6E

CCI's new COPPER-22 does a claimed 1,850 fps! We put that to the test as well as shoot some accuracy groups and blow up fruit, veggies, soda cans, and even IIIA body armor with these 21 grain lead-free projectiles. Support the channel, get free stuff, join live streams, gain early access, and more! https://www.patreon.com/JeremyGunsGear Support the channel, get free stuff, join live streams, gain early access, and more! https://www.patreon.com/JeremyGunsGear ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkHgNvXsiU

Upcoming @BlackCollarArms ammunition terminal ballistics testing in NATO spec 20% ballistic gelatin. 270 grain Speer SPBT fired at about 2,180 FPS (which is a light load) from a 375 Raptor Black Collar Arms Pork Sword with a 16-inch, 1:8 twist rifling barrel. Video at approximately 9,000 frames per second high speed slow motion camera. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBcOLbAvVoY