{"id":53574,"date":"2019-12-18T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=53574"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:00:53","slug":"ballester-molina-pistols-from-german-pocket-battleship-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/ballester-molina-pistols-from-german-pocket-battleship-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballester-Molina Pistols from German Pocket Battleship Armor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oboHoqtVl3o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Dec 2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?v=oboHoqtVl3o&#038;event=video_description&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.bbtv.com%2Fcollections%2Fforgotten-weapons&#038;redir_token=gaxhQTz4d6BwOicJuzoiCoaSSgR8MTU3NjY5NTExNUAxNTc2NjA4NzE1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forg&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an old gun shop tale that Argentine Ballester-Molina pistols were made form the salvaged armor plate of the pocket battleship <em>Admiral Graf Spee<\/em>. The <em>Graf Spee<\/em> was scuttled in the Rio de la Plata estuary in December 1939, only a few miles from the HAFDASA factory in Buenos Aires, and Argentina did not have the domestic steel reserves to make enough pistols&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See Michael Parker&#8217;s full article on this, including the exact results of his metallurgical analysis, here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?v=oboHoqtVl3o&#038;event=video_description&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanrifleman.org%2Farticles%2F2014%2F1%2F30%2Finvestigation-of-a-legend-the-graf-spee-and-the-ballester-molina%2F&#038;redir_token=gaxhQTz4d6BwOicJuzoiCoaSSgR8MTU3NjY5NTExNUAxNTc2NjA4NzE1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/arti&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. 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