I won't be bidding on this one

[LtDave]

For your viewing pleasure:

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/903385160

Presented as a .22 LR Colt Diamondback. I don't think so...

[Jim Watson]

Colt lookup says it could be either a 1964 or 1967 Police Positive Special or Detective Special.
Pictures shrewdly omit the breech face to show change from centerfire to rimfire.

A gun ruined and a barrel wasted.

[Duelist]

Wow.

[Paul D]

For your viewing pleasure:

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/903385160

Presented as a .22 LR Colt Diamondback. I don't think so...

Looking at that wasn't pleasurable at all.

[Hambo]

I asked the seller a question to see if it's ignorance or scamville.

[LtDave]

That gun is so much fail in all respects. Even the grips appear to have been jacked with. It would be worthless even as a parts gun IMHO.

[okie john]

Colt lookup says it could be either a 1964 or 1967 Police Positive Special or Detective Special.
Pictures shrewdly omit the breech face to show change from centerfire to rimfire.

A gun ruined and a barrel wasted.

Colt made 22 LR versions of most of their duty guns, like this one: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/903706815 Not many, but a few.

I'm guessing that someone decided to make one of those into a Diamondback "clone."

It's a shame. The barrel alone would have been worth several hundred dollars before they butchered it.


Okie John

[farscott]

If it was priced as the Franken!Colt it is, I might grab it for a shooter as I cannot resist .22 LR handguns. But the owner seems to expect Diamondback money, not Franken!Colt money.

[Rex G]

Does GB have any type of fraud/scam/counterfeit alert, enabling members to report items? (I think that I may have joined GB, at some time in the past, but have long since disremembered my log-in details.)

[SCCY Marshal]

That gun reminds me there was once a punk band named Angry Thalidomide Babies:

https://youtu.be/XGnUoL1SG1Y