Post by Jim Spent 3 days in Taipei last month and even though modelguns are banned since 2005 I'd still managed to find something related...
Knowing that I wouldn't find anything modelgun-related I'd stumbled into a hobby shop by chance and found these (I'd to take these photos like a spy in case the grumpy shopkeeper found out...)
First of all a slide/barrel set of Wa Shan's M1911A1 with red barrel bushing (same case for the US - to distinguish it as a toy gun).
Noticed the warning sticker on the slide which literally means: "Warning! This part is only for use as indoor entertainment, appreciation, and decoration purposes. Carrying it to public places are prohibited, in order to avoid committing the Social Order Maintainence Act".
Even though HK & Taiwan shares the same language (different dialect though) but sometimes Taiwan's legal terms (as well as their legal definitions) can make things more confusing...but still, they're more clearer than the Communist (sorry for getting political again).
Assorted Wa Shan parts - a black PPK slide (TWD$550), a M19 2.5" barrel (with muzzle in red), and a metal cylinder for M19 (with clear chamber).
This is a Taiwanese made pfc barrel for Beretta M92F with detonator. The plastic used for this barrel is more stronger than the Japanese ABS barrel.
Finally a MGC M93R - although an airsoft, but I upload this pic as to show how replica pistols looked like in Taiwan before 2003 when either the barrel or the slide were to be in bright red / orange.
I was once offered a Marushin Beretta M92F back in 2002 and at the time it was required that every replica pistol (be it airsoft or modelgun) have to be fitted with Taiwanese made red plastic slide/barrel - I was told if I bought it they would replace the red parts with original barrel/slide for free - which means only the "samples" on the display window followed the law...
Here are some of the pics from an old magazine showing the Japanese modelguns available in Taiwan back in the early 90s (all without the red parts so they were regarded as illegal back then...but it seems the police didn't worked too much on it...)
Finally...what I'd only bought this time modelgun-related is this:
Ironically I bought a Japanese book (published 2006) in Taiwan which I couldn't find elsewhere (even Japan)!
Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:08 am
(and leave broke...)
