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Lee Lapin · October 30, 2005, 05:40 PM

Richardson Industries M5, most likely. Too bad yours isn't USGI property marked (is it?????)- take a look at http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976529904.htm and
http://www.militarygunsupply.com/sho...itemid=CRUSLIB .

There's another one, apparently not GI, at http://www.joesalter.com/detail.php?f_qryitem=2548 .

A couple or three pages on Iliff D. Richardson and his guns are in Thomas F. Swearengen's _World's Fighting Shotguns_ (pp. 36- 40). This section also includes material on the Philippine paliuntod and paltik guns, improvised there for decades. Ensign Richardson (USNR) was a WW2 guerrilla leader fighting the Japanese on the island of Leyte after the Philippines fell. After the war he tried manufacturing this sort of gun in the United States, but there was no market for it and the enterprise failed. Swearengen does not mention GI marked guns of this sort being dropped to guerrillas in the Phillipines or their manufacture during the war in the US. Where the examples in the first two links above came from, I don't know- but I have seen them mentioned before.

No matter what else, your gun is an oddity in today's world and a memento of times gone by- take good care of it and enjoy owning it. Find more on Richardson at

http://www.hbo.com/apps/band/site/cl...y.jsp?exid=173

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Web...srecno=1%7F%7F

lpl/nc (used to study war for a living...)

October 30, 2005, 05:40 PM	#3
Lee Lapin Senior Member Join Date: September 7, 2004 Location: SE NC Posts: 1,239	Richardson Industries M5, most likely. Too bad yours isn't USGI property marked (is it?????)- take a look at http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976529904.htm and http://www.militarygunsupply.com/sho...itemid=CRUSLIB . There's another one, apparently not GI, at http://www.joesalter.com/detail.php?f_qryitem=2548 . A couple or three pages on Iliff D. Richardson and his guns are in Thomas F. Swearengen's _World's Fighting Shotguns_ (pp. 36- 40). This section also includes material on the Philippine paliuntod and paltik guns, improvised there for decades. Ensign Richardson (USNR) was a WW2 guerrilla leader fighting the Japanese on the island of Leyte after the Philippines fell. After the war he tried manufacturing this sort of gun in the United States, but there was no market for it and the enterprise failed. Swearengen does not mention GI marked guns of this sort being dropped to guerrillas in the Phillipines or their manufacture during the war in the US. Where the examples in the first two links above came from, I don't know- but I have seen them mentioned before. No matter what else, your gun is an oddity in today's world and a memento of times gone by- take good care of it and enjoy owning it. Find more on Richardson at http://www.hbo.com/apps/band/site/cl...y.jsp?exid=173 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Web...srecno=1%7F%7F lpl/nc (used to study war for a living...)