Handgun Canadian made and Canadian Army issued Inglis No2 MKI star 7T9xxx near mint. Inglis No2 MKI star 6T6004 ex-Bob Faris Inglis No2 MKI star 6T6004 ex-Bob Faris Inglis No2 MKI star 6T6004 ex-Bob Faris Pistol No2 MKI star Inglis SN 5T9xx – Field stripped. Inglis No2 MKI star 6T6004 ex-Bob Faris Collection Pistol No2 MKI star Inglis SN 5Txxx Left side. The first production of these pistols had Chinese characters on the slide. The Chinese also called for a web holster that was terrible as it was far too tight a fit. A belt clip attached tp the soldier’s belt and the holster could be hooked onto it when not in use on the pistol as a stock. In addition to the shoulder stock which doubled as a holster, they had a tangent rear sight graduated up to 500 yards. Canada stared producing these for Nationalist China in 1944 as the No.

Nationalist China liked pistols with buttstocks that doubled as holsters. The Browning factory in Belgium was captured by the Germans in 1940 and staff were forced to continue producing the Model 35 Grand Puissance for Nazi use. In 1944 – 1945, the John Inglis factory in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, manufactured hundreds of thousands of 9mm pistols of the Browning High-Power model. Type also issued to SOE, British and Canadian Parachute troops late in WWII, SAS, Australian Army, Belgian military.

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