Category: All About Guns

This pistol was manufactured in the Fabryka Broni (Weapons Factory) near Radom, Poland by Polish workers under strict supervision by the occupation German Army, beginning in mid-World War Two.

Poland had been manufacturing the Radom pistol for its army since 1936, but when Poland surrendered to German forces on September 27, 1939, production ceased at the plant. The total number of Radom pistols made by the Germans amounted to about 300,000 pistols, marked with their own proof markings, and issued them to military officers and civilian officials of the Reich.

The first of the Polish made guns, the Polish Eagle, had a slot cut into the backstrap to mount a shoulder stock; three levers on the left side of firearm; an eagle on the left side of the slide, and were marked with serial numbers that had no letter prefixes.

About 50,000 guns later, the German Army had seized the factory and continued manufacturing the Type 1 Radom that still had the slot and the three levers, but used letter prefixes and displayed no eagle. The slot disappeared with the C prefix but the three levers remained and the beginning of the Type 2 Radom was ushered in.