Captain Caveman wrote on Nov 9
th, 2018 at 6:18pm:
Righto...ill have a crack.
1st one is a gate latch.
2nd one is a twist grip off a deltek grasshopper.
3rd one is a 1940s bottle opener.
The last one is a doggy door with its own door bell.
Things will now get very real.
He only got the fourth thing...almost. I've posted this in the real PA, sadly he failed to respond accurately. He managed to Google it, probably googled something like a military cross or whatever but got the whole thing wrong. He said it was a lamp on a NATO convoy, when it is a marker called Leitkreuz, used by the Bundeswehr aus Deutschland. The lamp is called Tarnlicht. I clearly posted a Leitkreuz, not a lamp (Tarnlicht).
The first is a HK45 detent plate. Usually you can change that, it comes with a few variants. Some detent plates convert the firearm to safety only with no decocking functions. Some want decocking while they don't have, etc.
Third photo is a sear for an H&K USP. The internal cocking piece, located within the hammer, is retained in the cocked position by the sear. When the trigger is pulled the hammer is moved fully rearward through slack to a point where it contacts the sear.
Second photo is of a H&K USP hammer axle. As the sear is disengaged by the application of pressure on the trigger, the cocking piece rotates on the hammer axle and drives the hammer forward to strike the firing pin and thus fire the chambered round.
H&K USP users in Australia:
• Australian Army Tactical Assault Group East and West
• Victoria Police Special Operations Group
• Queensland Police Special Emergency Response Team
• Western Australia Police Tactical Response Group
• Australian Federal Police Air Security Officers
Even in my Banana Republic – Bulgeristania, I personally don't know much people that didn't at least shoot or disassembled the USP. It's an icon and most of the Spec Forces and Army Groups used it at least for once or twice. And Australia was always a Western country, was never in Communism. Means access was even easier to such weaponry. And even if the gentleman Brian Ross never held a USP, it should be known to Military personnel how a sear looks like, and how a hammer axle looks like at least, if he never saw a detent plate.
Almost all pistols have these even if the form is slightly different, it's still the same base. The sear on the H&K USP is not much different from the sear of a Browning Hi-Power or a 1911, and Australian Army used Hi-Powers and 1911s during the Vietnam War and onwards (1970s, 80s, 90s).
I think the myth "I was in the Army" is busted on this one, so this just becomes nothing more than stolen valour and pitiful but both enraging and infuriating. A Military imposter, when people really died, bled, and legs were blown off.
Shame on you, man. Shame on you if you read this.