{"id":12339,"date":"2017-04-23T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/23\/a-japanese-officers-pistol-the-baby-nambu\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:19:09","slug":"a-japanese-officers-pistol-the-baby-nambu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/23\/a-japanese-officers-pistol-the-baby-nambu\/","title":{"rendered":"A Japanese Officer&#8217;s Pistol: The Baby Nambu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rW5-zoVl3JQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Nambu Automatic Pistol Type B, or \u201cBaby Nambu\u201d as it is known in US collecting circles, is a scaled-down companion to the 1902 \u201cGrandpa\u201d Nambu pistol. It was intended as a private purchase option for officers who needed to carry a sidearm, but did not want or need a full size service pistol. It was chambered for the 7mm Nambu cartridge (roughly on par with .25ACP).<\/p>\n<p>Despite its small size and light cartridge, the Baby Nambu copied the complete locking system of the larger Nambu, resulting in a quite expensive pistol. As a result, demand was slim, and only 6500 were manufactured between 1903 and 1929, when production ended. Most of these were made by the Tokyo Army Arsenal, although production did move to the TG&#038;E company in about 1923 (presumably after the great Tokyo earthquake).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nambu Automatic Pistol Type B, or \u201cBaby Nambu\u201d as it is known in US collecting circles, is a scaled-down companion to the 1902 \u201cGrandpa\u201d Nambu pistol. It was intended as a private purchase option for officers who needed to carry a sidearm, but did not want or need a full size service pistol. It&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/23\/a-japanese-officers-pistol-the-baby-nambu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Japanese Officer&#8217;s Pistol: The Baby Nambu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14903,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions\/14903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}