Action # 2 by Modesto Santos of Eibar, Spain

A company within France purchased guns from the firm of Modesto Santos, to sell to the French Government, and had their name put on it, Les Ouvriers Reunis.  The gun also bore the Trade name of Action and Action No.2 which belonged to Santos.  This is a  medium size frame with a magazine capacity of 7 shots.  While this gun has a tang safety the field stripping procedure is the same as with center safety models.
 
 

During the war years France gave some of the "Rubys", about 5000, among other arms,  to Serbia and in about 1933 the Yugoslavian government reworked them replacing the Legend with their own in Cyrillic. The legend on the 9 shot will be PISTOL cal. 7.65mm - 9  B.T.3  1933.  It is reported that Yugoslavia again received guns in 1931 but I only have one reference to that.  This may be confusion with the fact that they rebuilt the ones they had.

Caliber: 7.65mm - .32acp
Overall Length: 144mm
Height: 101mm
Barrel: 81mm
Weight: 1 lb 7.8oz
Sights: fixed
Magazine Capacity: 7 round
Magazine Release: bottom of frame
Slide hold open Feature: yes
Grips: Checkered Walnut
Safety: rear of frame
 
 

ALDAZABAL Trade name of Aldazabal Leturinodo Y Cia of Eibar, Spain, AL code Total production for France 12,500.
(Numbers quoted are from the Archivo Municipal de Eibar)
 
 

Caliber: 7.65mm - .32acp
Overall Length: 6"
Height: 5.625"
Barrel: 3.470"
Weight: 1lb 13.9ozs
Sights: fixed
Magazine Capacity: 9 round
Magazine Release: bottom of frame
Slide hold open Feature: none
Grips: Checkered Walnut
Safety: center of frame

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