![]() ![]() As with most WWII-era Japanese firearms, production quality decreased toward the end of the war. Surprisingly, many infantry noncommissioned officers and even commissioned officers preferred the Type 94 to the earlier Type 14 owing to its good trigger reliability and better handling characteristics. The Type 94 was used by both Japanese tank crews and pilots of both Army and Navy air services, all of whom preferred compact pistols that could easily fit or be maneuvered in vehicles. This feature, apparently discovered when Americans accidentally mashed the sear bar on a captured pistol, became the source of an over-exaggerated UrbanLegend that the Type 94 was intended as a suicide special or as a surprise weapon for Japanese soldiers feigning surrender. Similarly to the Luger's receiver design, the trigger sear is exposed on the left side of the frame (although the Luger has a cover plate to keep the sear from getting depressed by external forces) one can unintentionally cause the Type 94 to shoot without pulling the trigger by carelessly handling it]Nambu tried to fit a cover plate to protect the sear on his prototype, but it attracted moisture and the entire assembly rusted shut]. 380 ACP, and much weaker than the 9x19mm and. ![]() The Type 94 is criticized as difficult to disassemble, underpowered (the bottle-necked 8x22mm Nambu is comparable to the. The Type 94 also had a magazine safety built into the frame to prevent firing should the magazine not be properly seated, such that one had to slap the magazine after inserting it to ensure proper feeding and trigger functionality. The return stroke of the slide chambered a fresh cartridge, got the locking block back into place and locked the system into battery until the next trigger pull. ![]() At that point, the barrel stopped and the slide continued to the rear under its own momentum, extracting and ejecting the spent round. During firing, the locking block kept the barrel and slide together until the slide forced the block into its recess in the frame. Like the Type 14, the Type 94 had a complicated assembly]the slide and main bolt were separate units kept together by a cross-bolt lug that also intersected the firing pin, with the barrel held in place by a frame extension and the recoil spring held against the front of the slide by a collar around the barrel just forward of the chamber end] and used a locked breech recoil system relying on a locking block assembly similar to that of the modern Beretta 92. Unlike the Type 14, the Type 94 had a concealed hammer (in the style of the Colt Hammerless pocket models), whose spring didn't weaken with sustained firing and guaranteed that the pistol would function reliably. So in 1934, Nambu created a compact six-shot pistol firing the same 8x22mm cartridge. Kijiro Nambu's previous pistol, the Type 14, had been met with some complaints concerning trigger group reliability in the field and poor handling and size for vehicle usage. ] ->''Manufactured in Japan since before the war, some viewed this pistol as being unnecessarily complex in its design while others admired that it was compact and lightweight.'' ->-'''Description''', ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV'' ] ] A Japanese compact pistol allegedly developed for export to South America but in truth made as a cheap military side-arm, the Type 94 pistol is considered by many pop-historians to be the worst military side-arm ever designed in the history of modern warfare.
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