Good thing it wasn't in Chicago. The elderly veteran would certainly have been charged and the burglar would be suing the gun industry.

A Browning model 1900 built in Belgium by FN. It works like a charm.

.380 semi-auto 'pocket' gun made in 1922 that is in great shape.

By the way, this incident happened in Ukraine and not Russia.

I wonder if the old guy will ever see his gun again.

Guns, especially handguns, are extremely tightly controlled over there.

I wonder if he used that gun in WWII. It may be a valuable piece of history.

"The Nagant revolver was designed in 1895 as the standard issue sidearm for the Russian empire. The Nagant revolver saw wide spread use in both WW1 and WW2 despite being tentatively replaced by the Tokarev TTC in 1930."

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/21_1059/products_id/411547797/Handguns/Century+International+Arms/SOVIET+NAGANT+M1895+REVOLVER+W+ACCESSORIES

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I've shot one of those guns before. The gun has about a 37 pound trigger pull.

An interesting fact is that in most revolvers there is a gap between the cylinder and barrel, where gasses escape, and lower velocity, these gasses can also be dangerous to a shooter, and kill your night vision. So they manufactures of that gun solved it, by seating the bullet all the way in the case (so the bullet doesn't even stick out), and when you pull the trigger, the cylinder moves forward, so seal the gap. Its the only revolver that I know of that does this, and maybe the only revolver that can effectively be silenced. Its a very interesting design, and quite advanced for the time, but it does come at the expense of a heavy trigger pull, which is why the design was never copied.