Can anyone identify this pistol?

[Bernie Lomax]

Here it is:

http://www.as-coa.org/sites/default...blic/field/image/Mexico_Gun.jpg?itok=EG1yoQDy

Here's the article it came from:

http://www.as-coa.org/articles/explainer-gun-laws-latin-america’s-six-largest-economies

The caption explains that it's being surrendered by a man in Mexico City to a city employee as part of a voluntary government weapons exchange program.

Anyone have any idea what it is?

 

[PistolPete45]

Hard to say I was told that Mexico and such was a big market for the 38 super back in the day in the 90's I hung out in a gun shop with the owner a lot and about every hispanic that came in asked about the 38 super and ammo for it .. A possibility this is one of them

 

[CWL]

Looks like a Spanish "Ruby" pistol in .32ACP. Clone of the Browning 1903 and made by 50 different Companies between WWI -WWII.

See top and bottom examples.

 

[goon]

Looks like a Ruby to me too.

 

[bannockburn]

Make that three: looks like a Spanish made Ruby to me as well.

 

[Nom de Forum]

Did anyone mention that it looks like a Ruby?

 

[Orion8472]

You guys really don't know what you're talking about. It clearly looks like a Ruby.

Jeez, . . . . get with the program.

 

[lincen]

From what others have told me, that is a Spanish Ruby and had been used by the French in WWI. The added button pressed into the slide was added to prevent the safety from being moved while holstering the weapon.

 

[Onmilo]

Has anyone mentioned that pistol is a Spanish made "Ruby" yet??

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I'm sure eventually someone will chime in to call it a "Ruby" but...

I know it as a Modelo 1916!