Things You Find On Gunbroker: Richardson Industries Philippine Guerrilla Gun

[Fred Fuller]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=121380874

Current Bid $0.00 No Reserve! Started at $699.00
Buy It Now for $799.00
Quantity 1

This listing is for a very rare Richardson Industries " Philippine Guerrilla Gun". Manufactured in East Haven Conn, these single shot slam fire weapons are seldom seen. CONDITION: Very good, its been in a private collection for many years in as found original condition. 24" Barrel, 12 gauge with parkerized finish. No Serial number found on the gun........

Look now while you still can- this one's an oddity, and a history lesson all rolled into one. It would be nice for historical purposes if someone who can copy pictures here would import these.

We've discussed paltiks, or paliuntods as they were also known, here on the Shotgun forum before. This one is a commercial, postwar version, US made even. Primitive, simple, inexpensive- should be a lesson to those who think they can ban all firearms, as the Japanese tried to do in the Philippines during World War II after the invasion.

Unfortunately the company which made these guns discovered that the paliuntod was too crude for American tastes, even as a curio. That company belonged to former USNR Ensign Iliff D. Richardson, who during the war had similar guns made for his anti-Japanese guerrilla band on the Philippine island of Leyte. Richardson's postwar enterprise was a dismal failure.

Also see:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=119065

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186215

FWIW,

lpl

 

[Gunfighter123]

Very cool --- thanks for posting

 

[zombienerd]

Pictures

 

[zombienerd]

More:

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Too bad he doesn't have 6 at that price. I need 6 of them! Everyone needs a good slam fire gun.

Neat bit of history.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Thanks for posting this, Lee. I wrote a thread on the Palintid, the Phillipino ancestor of this a while back.

 

[amkus]

How does one fire that?

 

[Fred Fuller]

The barrel is removed from the 'receiver' by sliding it forward and a shell is loaded into the breech end of the barrel. The barrel is reinserted into the 'receiver,' and to fire is then slammed back into the fixed breech (with its fixed firing pin), which fires the shell.

Yes, it's definitely crude- so much so that the gun was a major flop in the US, and the compamy making them quickly went under. But they were used as weapons in the Philippines from well before WW2, and are still made and used there to this day.

Obligatory note- DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

lpl

 

[MustangMan01]

Philippine Guerrilla Gun

I just got this Guerrilla Gun from my dad. It has been locked in the basement for as long as I can remember. I see the other pictures of the Guerilla Guns but this one is a little different. Does anyone have any thoughts about that?

 

[scaatylobo]

About 40 years ago I was in Numrich Arms in West Hurley NY and they had one for sale and I laughed at the silly price of 50.00 == boy do I wish I bought it then .

MUSTANG MAN - looks like ya got a real collector there,just slightly different maker s'all.

 

[MustangMan01]

Guerrilla Gun

The stock has all the markings of the pictures earlier in this thread. "Philippine Guerrilla Gun Patent Pending" on one side and "Richardson Industries, Inc East Haven, Conn. U.S.A" on the other. I am thinking this may be an early production model. There are no sites and no key on the barrel. Just the safety knob.