Speaking of china's pistols, the first thing that people remember most is not the Type 92 pistol, but the old antique known as the "Big Black Star", that is, the famous Type 54 pistol. The origin of the "Big Black Star" can be traced back to the underground activities of "black eating black" in a certain place, and the Type 54 pistol is revered as the "Big Black Star" because of the penetrating, reliable and durable 51 type 7.62mm pistol cartridges used, the low price and the star on the grip. When it was disliked, the commanders were heavily equipped with guns such as the Mauser "Twenty Shots" - in contrast, the Type 54 pistol, which used the same ammunition but was much smaller and had a slightly smaller magazine capacity, would naturally be at a "disadvantage", and it was obviously reasonable to be disliked.
If you want to investigate, it is obvious that this is inseparable from the Tokarev TT-30/33 pistol. In 1951, China introduced the Tokarev TT-30/33 and imitated the Type 51 pistol; but the response after the use of the troops was not good, which improved the production process and modified the original design to introduce the Type 54. In contrast, the Type 54 pistol with a length of 194 mm and a weight of 0.94 kg (with a full magazine) and a mauser C96 with a length of 311 mm and a weight of 1.25 kg (without a magazine) are obviously witches, and the latter can hold 10 or even 20 rounds of pistol ammunition, which is the reason why grassroots commanders and fighters like "box guns".
In any case, the Type 54 pistol, after successfully replacing a series of "box guns" with smoothed rifling, became the pistol most commonly touched by grass-roots commanders and fighters of our army. Since then, although different military pistols have been added to the equipment sequence, the division of labor is quite obvious: type 64 and type 77 pistols are basically used by general-level officers, and type 54 is more present at the grass-roots level.
Of course, the Type 54 self-defense pistol used as a grassroots commander and fighter is also quite qualified: the Type 51 pistol cartridge can even penetrate the Class I body armor within an effective range, and its penetration force is recognized as strong; in addition, its simple structure is also convenient for mass production, which is a major reason why the grassroots choose it. And the equipment is relatively extensive, and more people are more impressed by this gun.
Between 1954 and 1987 alone, as many as 35 million Type 54 pistols were produced, including various forms of exports – military aid, exports to foreign countries, and so on. In Southeast Asia, the Type 54 is simply flooded: Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries have directly equipped the Type 54 pistol. Especially in Vietnam, K-54, K-14 and other pistols with TT-30/33 and Type 54 as imitations have been equipped so far: some time ago, the guns used in the diplomatic military officer shooting competition held in Vietnam were K-54, and the Chinese military attaché in Vietnam, Colonel Robin, also happened to be a master of using type 54 pistols and won the championship.
With the continuous improvement of the Type 92 pistol, the field of military pistols has long been the world of the Type 92 and its variants, after all, the birth time of this old gun has been a long time and has lagged behind. For various reasons, there are not many scenes of pistols in the PLA Army, and even battalion-level commanders and even brigade-level commanders are now carrying short automatic rifles for self-defense. It seems that only a few branches of the armed forces will be issued a self-defense pistol, which is a relatively small proportion of infantry. Although the Type 54 pistol has a large stockpile, it is still unable to compete with the development of science and technology. Netizens began to imagine again: in case of a zombie outbreak, maybe the Type 54 pistol is the best self-defense weapon!