New Nambu M57A1 9mm Pistol Prototype designed by the Shin-Chuo Industries in 1957.

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Entire_Judge_2988@reddit

This is really cool. It looks like a prop from the movie Blade Runner.

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I’m positive all the pictures of it, except the blue-background, are rubber props lol. This is some guy at home doing these and painting them, the background really doesn’t look like a museum or military facility. Which is impressive since they most likely never could get access to a real one to take measurements or anything, they most likely had to design a model just off of pictures.

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InterestingShare7796@reddit

Old comment, I know, but I think you're right. Especially looking at the mag release and where the slide meets the grip on the last picture.

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Nero_Team-Aardwolf@reddit

I don‘t know why but this looks like a gun someone would design for an anime. Like the specific cuts and curvature and mixture from multiple designs match exactly what I would imagine an anime/ manga artist would come up with

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CerberusTheHunter@reddit

Yes. I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but it looks Japanese.

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Nero_Team-Aardwolf@reddit

No that‘s not what I meant xD it looks like certain designeöements are weirdly overdesigned or off something anime or manga artists do but usually actual firearms don‘t have. Maybe cause it‘s a prototype?

The slide release is absurdly big and overdesigned as an example. That’s what I meant haha

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CerberusTheHunter@reddit

No, really, we are on the same page. This reminds me of so many guns from anime/manga and video games that were all Japanese made.

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Nero_Team-Aardwolf@reddit

Agreed thought you were sarcastic cause it‘s a nambu afterall xD

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Stevenwave@reddit

Could be the other way too though. Designs this old could have been the stuff that influenced manga and anime artists. Maybe a few did it and those artists then influenced later artists. Would be interesting to look into, I don't really know anything about Japanese firearms at all.

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RutabagaOutside6126@reddit

The oversized parts and the grip, remind me of something designed for people with arthritis.

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TheEvilBlight@reddit

Wonder why not going to the 9mm HiPower; though I get that manual of arms for the existing gun is helpful, compatibility with holsters, etc

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levels_jerry_levels@reddit

I will never, as a Japanese American, not be upset at Japan’s fucking pacifism when it comes to weapons exports. Particularly the type 89.

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NotAGTCSockPuppet@reddit

You can get Japanese .38 snubbies that are a mix of Smith and Colt. One of my great regrets is not pouncing on the one I came across many years ago.

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HoppesNo9@reddit

You aren’t missing anything. I had the “opportunity” to make and fit replacement parts for two Miroku .38s and they were both hot garbage. Worse yet the owners both expected miracles but didn’t want to spend any money for their “babies.” Thankfully one was just a broken firing pin, and I had part of the original. If you want to experience a mix of Colt and Smith that is similarly trash, borrow an Armscor wheelie. I swear the people in charge of installing barrels on those are blind given how crooked they are. Uberti SAA smiths puts the barrels on with little more than a vise and an old axehandle and they come out straighter than on an Armscor.

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subtleplus@reddit

I understand what you mean, but you can buy Howa and Miroku made firearms in the US (at least, you could before you know). Though, given how the US turned down a shipment of South Korean arsenal M1s, the days of nice milsurp coming here are over, I'm afraid

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8fulhate@reddit

I'd love a collection of post war Japanese weapons. Hell, I'd get a Type 64 just cause of Gate or GI Samurai.

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Cleanbriefs@reddit

If you are gonna make a semi auto gun for smaller hands you gotta upsize the chunkiness of the controls to add mass while making the frame narrower for smaller hands.

This is why the controls look hilariously comic book drawn.

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bmbreath@reddit

I want one. And it also looks like AI tried to render a firearm. Everything on it is off from a 'normal' expectation of a pistol

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BicSparkLighter@reddit

this dude games

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Default_Nord_@reddit

It looks like the first pistol you get in a PS2 game, where they just took elements from a bunch of wonder nines and combined them into one and called it like The Strelok-9 so it sounds vaguely Soviet

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The_Hairy_Herald@reddit

That was vivid, and I liked it!

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Default_Nord_@reddit

I played too many first person shooters on the PS2

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lycantrophee@reddit

Awfully specific and I'm here for it.

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MlackBesa@reddit

I’m pretty sure that’s because it is molded. Look at the trigger and controls, they are fused with the body. And the pictures look nowhere to be from a museum or arms storage room. I’m guessing an enthusiast made a prop replica and painted it, and only the two blue-background pictures actually depict real ones, the setting looks much more serious.

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justaheatattack@reddit

we have S&W at home.

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keizaigakusha@reddit

Ghost in the Shell gun

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Master_Shopping9652@reddit

An actual type 14 Nambu in 9mm Luger would be interesting to see.

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Glitzernder_Pirat@reddit

Looks like something Masamune Shiro designed. Fits perfect into Ghost in the Shell or Appleseed

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MentalRain619@reddit

It's as if a Makarov and a S&W first generation pistol had a son, and the son was drawn by a manga artist

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Jwanito@reddit

why does it look edible?

like in that chocolate molded thing way

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MlackBesa@reddit

I’m pretty sure that’s because it is molded. Look at the trigger and controls, they are fused with the body. And the pictures look nowhere to be from a museum or arms storage room. I’m guessing an enthusiast made a prop replica and painted it, and only the two blue-background pictures actually depict real ones, the setting looks much more serious.

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Mapekus@reddit

The soft edges and the way the material reflects light reminds me of paint, makes me think the first few images are of a replica. I found a yahoo auction of what looks to be the same thing and it's listed under toy/model gun.

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TeddyBinks@reddit

Yeah, I was thinking it looked too much like it was die cast. The slide safe looks like it is stuck on place and does not move. It kinda looks to me that it IS a toy cast of perhaps an original.

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Altruistic_Mechanic7@reddit

Looks like it influenced the Walther P88

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Ok-Peanut4539@reddit

Ngl this thing slaps lol

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appalachian_aurora@reddit

Major Kusanagi's sidearm?

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GumshoosMerchant@reddit

Okay... after doing some research. It appears to have been a design based on the 1911A1 for the "A" model. But the "B" model was based on the FN model 1910.

I know this design predated it. But I just cannot stop thinking of the Beretta 92 pistols for some reason when I see this. The single stack Beretta m1951, which were the precursors to the 92, did exist in this era though.

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Dubaku@reddit

It's the grip having the cut out for the slide stop and the safety on the slide. It gives it that vaguely Beretta look. Kinda like someone saw one once and had to draw it from memory. Like those early CIA sketches of the AK-47.

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GumshoosMerchant@reddit

They thought it was an SMG of some sort.

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Dubaku@reddit

To be fair they weren't super far off with that assessment. The Soviets came to the assault rifle concept from the opposite direction as the US. Where we wanted a rifle with a higher ammo capacity, they wanted and SMG with more fire power.

iirc They had planned on adopting it along side the SKS in the role they would have used something like the PPS43. But at some point someone looked at the two rifles and realized the AK does everything the SKS can but better, and can be made for cheaper once they get stamping sorted out.

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azb1812@reddit

It's hideous.

I want one.

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