Where was my GP100 vacationing?

[ray1970]

I have a GP100 that has some sort of import markings on the bottom of the barrel shroud... I believe the marks were from CAI? (Century Arms International?)... so I am assuming that after this rolled out of the Ruger factory that it was exported to some other country... possibly for use by some police or military organization?.... anyone have any thoughts or knowledge of where this revolver might have been? Thanks!

FYI- the gun has a 4" barrel without the full under lug and has fixed sights and is made of stainless.

 

[hittman]

For some reason I'm thinking some went to Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

 

[protoolman]

As Chief of Police I ordered a few for my Department a few years back. They were kept in a bonded warehouse until we did ATF paperwork for the import. They came back from Canada mostly. The price will make you cry. I paid $100 for Service Six 2+ inchers in stainless. $75.00 for SP-101s in .38 special on the old short frame. No tax. All the short barrel guns I think are illegal for Canadian citizens to own so when the PDs sold off all their revolvers to go to autos CAI (Century Int'l Arms) bought them up at what were truly scrap prices and re-imported them to the US. Century sold off all the longer barrels at higher prices to civilians but the snubbys were only sold to PDs due to some kind of agreement with ATF on re-importing them. (maybe they came under their non-sporting import rules?) Anyway tons of these guns both lengths eventually made their way into the market again. I've seen a lot of them at gun shows.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Where was my GP100 vacationing?

Probably somewhere in the wilds of Canada in an RCMP holster and re-imported by CDNN. ...but maybe France. What language does it speak?
http://www.cdnninvestments.com/

...Jimbo

 

[ray1970]

Thanks for the info!

Not sure what language mine speaks, Jimbo... but if it sounds like French it could be France or Canada... who knows, maybe Dudley Do-Right carried my piece.

 

[BearHawk 357]

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My GP's only speak an English dialect of BOOOM!!!!!
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