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Armscor Global Defense, Inc. is a firearms manufacturing company based in the Philippines. It is known for its inexpensive 1911-pattern pistols, revolvers, shotguns, sporting rifles, firearms parts and ammunition. Armscor, whose manufacturing facility is located in Marikina, produces about 200,000 firearms and some 420 million rounds of ...
Sights. fixed G.I. (FS model) The Rock Island Armory 1911 series is a product line of single-action recoil operated semi-automatic pistols. They are designed and manufactured by Armscor in Marikina, Philippines, [1] and distributed in the United States by Armscor USA, located in Pahrump, Nevada. Armscor is an ISO 9001 certified-compliant company.
The Philippines was a Commonwealth of the United States, a country known for its cultural pride of gun ownership and gun rights. Since the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, the U.S. allowed gun ownership and gun rights among the Filipino populace, with some exceptions. Gun control was a small issue in the Philippines.
Philippines: Semi-automatic pistol.45 ACP: TAC Ultra FS HC 45 ACP: 3,000 acquired by Armed Forces of the Philippines in 2017, for issue to all service branches. Majority went to the Philippine Army. AFP ordered 60,000 units under AFP 0.45 caliber Hammer Fired Pistol acquisition project, majority expected to go to the Philippine Army.
The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass-produced. It had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired the .45 ACP pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Due to this limitation, it was intended for short-range use, 1–4 yards (0.91–3.66 m).
The FIC Mk. 9 is a sub-machine gun designed by a private venture of Floro International Corporation (FIC) based in Tanay, Rizal Province in the Philippines.The weapon is marketed to local security forces as a low-cost alternative to imported submachine guns and is currently in limited use by the Philippines Marines and the Philippines Navy.
Sibat. Balisong. Golok - used as a primary sword for enlisted officers. Barong knife. Spike bayonet. Dahong palay. Parang - Used primarily in Visayas and Mindanao. Kris or Kalis had been used in the revolution by the Moros of Mindanao. The Gulok used as a primary saber of enlisted officers.
Filipino guns have been smuggled and used in the United States of America and Japan, mostly in the hands of gangs. [1] [10] The most common ones sold are homemade Colt .45s and assault rifles. One infamous case occurred on November 29, 2019, when Yakuza leader Keiichi Furukawa of the Yamaguchi-gumi was gunned down by a splinter Kobe group with ...