Morphy Auctions is one of the largest American auction houses and every year hosts multiple firearms auctions. Among these auctions, the most prominent ones in terms of the amount and significance of consigned lots are the Morphy Extraordinary Firearms Auctions. Browsing the catalogs of these auctions you can find a huge variety of rare, unique and historically significant guns – from old muzzleloading firearms to modern machine guns and everything in between. We browsed the online catalog of the upcoming October 2019 Extraordinary, Sporting & Collector Firearms Auction and found some of the most interesting lots related to the MENA region.
Handguns
PKK Small Arms Captures: January-March 2019
Some interesting small arms were captured by Turkish forces from the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê or Kurdistan Workers’ Party – PKK, these caches included shoulder-fired recoilless weapons and various self-loading rifles.
Prime Minister Al-Maliki’s Zastava CZ-99 Gift Hand Guns
Today, examples of the Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki’s presentation 9 × 19 mm Zastava CZ 99 self-loading pistols can be seen infrequently on the open and online gun markets of Iraq. The pistols date back almost a decade when the CZ 99s entered Iraq as part of a purchase from Zastava in Serbia in 2008. The Iraqi presentation CZ 99s are not unique in their own right, as Zastava has several offerings of presentation-grade handguns that have been seen in open sources.
Saddam’s Lesser Known Commemorative Tariq Variant
The Iraqi Tariq line of self-loading pistols, like the al-Kadessiah’s line of golden Tabuk M70-based carbines and al-Kadessiah precision presentation self-loading rifles, featured several presentation variants.
V12 Silah Report Podcast: Patreon Questions and Large ISIS Arsenal Captured
In the 12th episode of Silah Report Podcast we were joined by Adham, Vlad, Daniel, Miles, Ataka, MENA, Analyst Mick, and Abdullah Khyber. We answered four questions submitted by Patreon supporters of Silah Report and discussed an ISIS weapons and munitions cache recently captured by Iraqi security forces.
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If you missed last week’s episode, you can find it here.
V9 Silah Report Podcast: Sinai’s ISIS latest Video, Baluchistan’s Fighters and More!
Just one day after ISIS in Sinai (also known as Sinai Province or “Wilayat Sinai”) had published its latest video, Silah Report recorded its 9th podcast and discussed the video’s content and analysed it. Miles, Hrachya, and Adham from Silah Report were joined by guests Calibre Obscura, Analyst Mick, Ataka, MENA Conflict, and KhyberAbdullah. ARES Director N.R. Jenzen-Jones also made a special guest appearance.
If you missed last week’s podcast, check it out here.
Syrian War Trophies of the Russian Armed Forces
In late 2018, in the Russian cities of Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, the Russian military arranged expositions of arms and equipment captured during the Syrian War. These included a huge variety of production firearms as well as craft-produced examples such as the grenade launcher shown in the header image. Let’s take a look at these pictures and identify some of the weapons that were on display.
Firearms Seized in Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev’s House
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic has published a press release telling about the small arms found in the house of recently arrested former president Almazbek Atambayev. The police raid of Atambayev’s compound took place on August 9 in the village of Koy Tash. The police forces faced armed resistance by former president’s supporters but eventually, Atambayev was arrested.
Muscat & Oman Contract Hi-Power Pistols Seen in Rock Island Premiere Firearms Auction Catalog
While browsing the recently published catalog of the upcoming September 2019 Rock Island Premiere Firearms Auction, I came across two FN/Browning Hi-Power pistols (lots # 513 and #1679) manufactured by Fabrique Nationale for the Sultanate of Muscat & Oman. These pistols are identified by the coat of arms of this former state engraved on the right side of the slide.
Mannlicher Model 1900 Pistol Presented to Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II
Rock Island Auction Company has published the digital catalog of their upcoming September 2019 Premiere Firearms Auction and as always, it is full of rare, unique, historically significant and incredibly interesting lots. One of these lots is a cased and engraved presentation grade Mannlicher Model 1900 pistol which was presumably presented to the 34th Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II.