Intratec TEC-22 Makes The News
A political scandal broke out in Mexico today when a photograph of a young congressional candidate posing with a firearm was published on Facebook. The politics of this is far outside the scope of TFB, but what I do find interesting is the gun itself. The Mexican press are calling it an “UZI submachine gun”. It is about as close to an UZI as it is to an AK-47!
I believe the gun is an Intratec TEC-22 / Scorpion. Back in the early 90s Intratec tried to capitalize on their infamous TEC-9 pistol by producing a cheap .22 patterned after it. It was mainly made out of ABS plastic and used Ruger 10/22 magazines. The TEC-22′s designer was none other than George Kellgren, the founder and Chief Engineer of Kel-Tec.
Kellgren was ahead of his time. Today just about every infamous gun of the 20th century has a plastic .22 patterned after it. A couple of years ago Ruger decided a forward magazine fed .22 pistol was not a bad idea and produced the Ruger Charger.
[ Many thanks to Ztryfe for emailing us the link. ]
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I checked out the link to the GSGs that Bob Z Moose posted for SEDENA, and it appears the stock photo used for the GSG .22 has the magazine inserted backwards. An inside joke, maybe?
Unfortunately, the media does know what it is saying.....most media outlets are run by liberals, hence, they will throw names around like "automatic" for a semi-auto.......or "Uzi" for anything that looks like, well, an Uzi......and correctness be damned( unless its political correctness).....us against them mates......