Indians For Guns

Firearms used by Legends
It would be Great if anyone can help me expand this.

1) S. Udham Singh used a Smith & Wesson .455 Mark 2 Hand Ejector, Serial No. 16586 ,handgun in the Black Museum at the New Scotland Yard
There is another side of story bullet recovered from Michael O?Dwyer body showed that on March 13, 1940 in Caxton Hall he used .44 cartridges in revolver.

2) S. Bhagat Singh is said to have carried a .38 Webley & Scott (nuttin confirmed)

3) Chandrasekhar Azad used a Mauser pistol (Model not known) ,my guess would be a C96 Broomhandle

4) Jeona Mour ,Jagga, Sucha (Punjabi robins hood's) were said to be very fond of Pathani Rifles (.303 Lee-Enfield Rifles) but as we read more about them , thier most trusted weapon was good old double barrel 12ga shotguns again...(nuttin confirmed)

I read about Netaji Subash chandra bose's pistol in Thailand but i cannot recall exactly what calibre and make it was.


Harnihal

Young Tiger wrote:Firearms used by Legends


3) Chandrasekhar Azad used a Mauser pistol (Model not known) ,my guess would be a C96 Broomhandle

Harnihal

penpusher saw the pistol used by Azad in a museum. He confirmed it to be
a Colt. Would like to know what is the source of this information ( about
it being a Mauser ).

Sujay

My main source was very trusted wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrashekar_Azad

Read Escape and Death , As far as my research is concerned there is no mention of Colt anywhere.

http://unnao.nic.in/person.htm

Official site verifies information.

Harnihal

Yep even I remember that it was a mauser...not by any fact but by folklore and such stuff. It may not have been a broomhandle but maybe a smaller one...though I recall hearing about the broom handle also.



Colt isn't mentioned in any of the folklore that I have read. But who knows it might have been the famed 1911?

Regards,

dev

Dev,
The word Mauser seems to be in generic usage to signify a small-ish semi auto, here in India.I've faced this many times!
How you doing buddy, free any time ?
Best
Axx

dev wrote:Yep even I remember that it was a mauser...not by any fact but by folklore and such stuff.

The origins of such folklores lies in the fact that revolutionaries bought in weapons to be used against British through personal couriers; chief origins
being other than England and US. Since Germany was at odds with England during that particular period and Mauser was the only widely recognized German brand................ the speculations.That said a very substantial part of the weaponary was indeed Mauser.

Wikipedia mentions Mauser in a very casual manner just to add a bit colour.
Instead of ' his pistol' .....' his Mauser'. I would prefer to believe penpusher as he has seen the object of our interest.