It was important to teach the basic manual of arms with the Makarov, as it is counterintuitive for those who have used a Walther PP or PPK, and some government trainees had. However, since I did not have a supply of 9x18mm ammo, I just had them disarm, point and dry fire the Type 59. Once the trainees had learned to render the weapon safe or ready to fire and understood its controls, I had them fire some of the weapons. Typical ComBloc weapons available throughout the third world were normally used, as well as Western ones that were widely distributed. Included in the more advanced government class were techniques for disarming an aspiring kidnapper and turning his weapon against him. I also used it for a while in a class I did for government personnel and certain business people who were going to be working in dangerous places. I had a chance to shoot it, though Makarov ammo was very hard to find. That was a Chinese Type 59 captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. For me, it was the star of the show despite the presence of hundreds of other exotic automatic pistols. One of the pistols on display was a Soviet Makarov presented to a Cuban officer on Grenada and captured by a US soldier. I remember attending the National Automatic Pistol Collectors show a couple of years after the US intervention in Grenada.
OctoBy Leroy Thompson, Machine Guns & Tactics EditorĪs ubiquitous as the Makarov pistol has become since the importation of large numbers from Germany and Bulgaria, there was a time when it was legendary but virtually unknown in the USA, and that was only 30 years ago.
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