Caiyun also liked toy guns when he was a child, and remembered that there was a toy puller that fired BB bullets called "Will Air Shotgun", which looked like a submachine gun and stored power on the spring by pulling the handguard. Caiyun really Baidu out of this thing photo:
Did the "Will Air Shotgun" of that year evoke everyone's childhood memories?
This "Will Air Shotgun" does have a real prototype, which is a swede design, which was later sold in the United States, and also caused a lot of criticism and a very bad reputation - TEC-9 pistol.
This is the TEC-9, is not the shape and the puller is matched
The prototype of the TEC-9 is the Swedish Interdynamic AB company in the early 1980s launched the Interdynamic MP-9 9mm submachine gun, this submachine gun structure is simple, but lackluster, round tube receiver, free bolt, open ready to shoot, essentially or typical second-generation submachine gun, but the lower receiver uses polymer material, the weight has been reduced. The Interdynamic MP-9 tried to reproduce the glory of the Swedish M/45 Gustav submachine gun, but the era of the traditional submachine gun had passed, the Swedish army did not want it, other countries did not buy it, and no one cared.
Interdynamic MP-9 9mm submachine gun
Telescopic stock openinter dynamic MP-9 9mm submachine gun
The military market can not catch up, then go to the civilian market to try your luck, the largest civilian firearms market is naturally the United States. Two designers at Interdynamic AB, George Kellgren and Carlos Garcia, traveled to the United States to open an InterDynamic USA subsidiary. They knew that the United States had tight restrictions on fully automatic weapons, so they specially changed the Interdynamic MP-9 to semi-automatic, and eliminated the front grip and stock of the submachine gun with obvious characteristics, and turned it into a semi-automatic pistol, named KG-9 for sale in the United States.
KG-9 was built not long ago to provoke the Federal Bureau of Tobacco and Alcohol (ATF), the original KG-9 although semi-automatic, but the use of open ready to hit, minutes can be changed to fully automatic, so ATF and InterDynamic company said that you can play this can play over the line, either rectification, or shutdown. So the open-chested KG-9 was discontinued after selling 2500, interDynamic company on its basis to change the launch mechanism to close the chamber to wait, so that it is more difficult to change back to fully automatic, the revised gun is called KG-99, continue to be sold. Later, Kyrgren left the company to go it alone, Carlos Garcia changed the company name to Intratec, KG-99 also changed to TEC-9, and continued to sell in the U.S. market.
The KG-99, which was changed to a closed chamber for attack, can be seen that its upper receiver is steel pipe and the lower receiver is plastic.
TEC-9/KG-99 is a very simple structure of the weapon, it was born from the free bolt principle of submachine gun, so it retains a lot of simple submachine gun structural features, such as the receiver is a steel tube, the bolt is in the steel tube receiver back and forth movement, in order to reduce weight and reduce costs, TEC-9's lower receiver together with the grip and magazine well is a plastic piece, composed of left and right halves after injection molding. The rear end of the early TEC-9 cylindrical receiver was open, only relying on a plastic plug on the rear end of the lower receiver with a re-entry spring, and the bolt recoil directly hit the plastic lower receiver when shooting, so only a light-loaded 9mm pistol cartridge with a 115-block warhead could be used, and if the recoil of the heavy warhead or the strong charge bullet was used, the lower receiver could be broken. The late-production TEC-9 added a threaded tail cover to the rear of the receiver, and there was also a cushion inside the tail cover, which made it more resistant to impact, and the lower receiver was no longer directly subject to bolt impact.
The front end of the barrel of the TEC-9 is threaded, which can be screwed to a muzzle device similar to a silencer, and this "silencer" has the same heat dissipation hole as the barrel guard, but there is no real silencer function, just a barrel extension barrel, after installation, the TEC-9 becomes more like a micro-sound submachine gun, although it cannot be silenced, but it can be forced.
TEC-9 pistol and fake silencer
The TEC-9 fitted with this fake silencer
Compared with other brand-name guns in the US market, TEC-9 belongs to the standard DS stream product, so it inevitably flows into street gangs in large quantities, frequently used for various criminal activities, coupled with the spread of film and television dramas such as "Miami Storm", the image of TEC-9 is firmly tied to gangsters, drugs, crime, and its reputation is very bad.
Stills from the first season of Miami Storm, in which TEC-9 appears
In 1989, the Stockton school shooting incident occurred in California, and in the same year, California promulgated the Roberti-Ross Assault Weapons Control Act, a number of guns with military guns or "evil characteristics" were included in the ban list, and the TEC-9 tied with gangsters and drug trafficking had long been disliked by White Left officials, and naturally became famous. But this California bill is actually a cover-up — only the guns on the list are banned, and if the guns on the list are slightly changed to details and renamed, they are not banned. To circumvent the law, Intratec introduced TEC-DC9, the California version of TEC-9. The difference between the gun and the original TEC-9 is negligible, the parts are interchangeable, only the fixed position of the gun strap is changed, and the back belt ring fixing point changes from a D-shaped ring welded to a stamped metal clip on the top of the receiver, and then changed its name, which is not on the prohibited list! This TEC-DC9 was produced between 1990-1994.
TEC-DC9, and TEC-9 is almost no different
In 1994, during the Clinton administration, the United States promulgated the "Federal Assault Weapons Ban", requiring that the newly produced civilian gun magazine capacity should not exceed 10 rounds, and there must be more than 2 "evil characteristics", that is, muzzle flame suppressors, independent grips, folding stocks, bayonet holders, barrel guards with heat dissipation holes, etc. that look like military guns "Evil Feature", the magazine capacity was changed to 10 rounds. However, the magazine socket of the AB-10 is exactly the same as that of the previously produced TEC-9, so as long as you have the 20 rounds and 32 rounds of the previous TEC-9 magazines, you can still plug it in and use it, and it is not illegal (so the US gun control act is to ignore the stomach and deceive yourself).
The AB-10, which was required for the Federal Assault Arms Ban, is a variant of the TEC-9.
But this TEC-9... How to say it, it may be too DS, with its own slag sucking physique, good things have never been the wheel, bad things have a share, and many vicious shooting practices throughout the 90s have its share. Especially in the 1999 Columbine campus shooting in the United States, two secondary school teenagers studying at the school shot 13 people in the school, killed 24 people, and finally committed suicide, one of the murderous guns they used was TEC-9, for a time the originally bad reputation of TEC-9 was once again pushed to the cusp of the storm, and even sued to demand that Intalec Company be responsible for a series of shootings in the United States, the reason is because TEC-9 is too cheap, greatly reducing the threshold for criminals to have guns. As a result, a large number of "low-quality people" who could not afford to buy guns also had guns (this is all tm what logic!). ）。 The lawsuit against Inteletc was entangled until 2001, when the California Supreme Court finally ruled that Intratec was not obliged to be responsible for the shootings made with the TEC-9 pistol, but because the lengthy litigation consumed a lot of financial and material resources, coupled with the complete discredit of TEC-9/AB-10, in 2001 Intelutc announced the collapse of the company, ab-10 pistol completely discontinued (previously because of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban) The TEC-9 has been discontinued), and this "infamous" gun has withdrawn from the stage of history.
The TEC-9 and AB-10 are still available on the U.S. secondary pistol market today, but some white-left states such as California, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland still prohibit the sale of TEC-9s and AB-10s.