Comments on: Apache Pistol / Knife / Knuckle Duster

By: Max

Max — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:27:49 +0000

thanks

By: Max

Max — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:27:34 +0000

hi i am a gun collector and this looks like a great piece for my collection and i was wondering if it is possible and where to buy one of these guns.

By: P47f6f

P47f6f — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:29:09 +0000

Greetings from Texas,
I don’t disagree with the facts presented about this weapon getting it’s name from Parisian gangs, but Apache is the only name I have ever known it by. I first saw one of these at the PANHANDLE PLAINS MUSEUM in Canyon Texas with my grandfather. I was six I think and thought it was the neatest gun I had ever seen. That one is still there as of two years ago.
Many years later I not only saw one at COLLECTORS FIREARMS in Houston Texas but was actually able to hold and examine it. I concluded it would make a great pair of brass knucles. The knife was nothing to trust your life to. I think it would have broken off if stuck in someone, even when new. If memory serves me correctly it was a 6mm pinfire. In Texas we call that a mouse gun.
Please don’t misunderstand what I am saying here. It was wonderful to see the beastie, and brought back memories of my grandfather. The $2,600.00 dollar price is the only reason I left the store without it. But if push came to shove I think I would leave it in my pocket and use the 1911 for self defense, even against the mouse!

By: Aedon

Aedon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:19:33 +0000

Actually, mate, the item you have pictured was not called an Apache, but was used by the Apache (Ah-Pah-Shay) gangs of the Parisian underworld. The gangs take their name from news stories that noted them to be vicious in combat, comparable to American Apache warriors. The thugs took a shine to the name and adopted it, forming “war bands” that amounted to little more than street gangs.