Matt, from what i know the Type 94 story is one of those gun myths handed down thru the years, like the idea that if you fire a [fill in the blank] rifle it will send the bolt into your skull.:->
(The only one i know of that COULD actually do that was the early Ross, but only if the bolt was improperly assembled).
At least Tim Mullin in his interesting books of military weapons field tests says that the Type 94 is not all that bad; while it IS possible to fire it by depressing the exposed sear bar, this takes enough pressure that it's very unlikely to happen by accident.
The same can't be said of the German Army's Langenhan 7.65 pistol, a WWI arm that some officers probably still carried in WWII. If the screw & stirrup holding the breech block come loose in firing (a real possibility), the breech can blow out of the slide & into the shooter's face.
Few really strange weapons ever make it past the testing phase. What we have here are, at the most, guns that have various quirks or are just unusual in some way.
(The only one i know of that COULD actually do that was the early Ross, but only if the bolt was improperly assembled).
At least Tim Mullin in his interesting books of military weapons field tests says that the Type 94 is not all that bad; while it IS possible to fire it by depressing the exposed sear bar, this takes enough pressure that it's very unlikely to happen by accident.
The same can't be said of the German Army's Langenhan 7.65 pistol, a WWI arm that some officers probably still carried in WWII. If the screw & stirrup holding the breech block come loose in firing (a real possibility), the breech can blow out of the slide & into the shooter's face.
Few really strange weapons ever make it past the testing phase. What we have here are, at the most, guns that have various quirks or are just unusual in some way.
about as accurate as a 1911a1 anyway!
Ha ha!
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