Worst sidearm issued by a military?

[Dozer99]

Hands down the Polish P64. Might as well light a M-80 in your hand and throw your numb fingers at the enemy!

 

[DunRanull]

Bodeo Model 1889 (Italian: Pistola a Rotazione, Sistema Bodeo, Modello 1889) Folding trigger, side-loading, no trigger guard. Used by the Italian army in ww1 and some again in ww2. 10.4mm, some found recently in Ethiopian storage..

 

[MarkAd]

The 1911. DEFINITELY the 1911…


Jeremy - there are meds to help your psychological issues.

 

[DunRanull]

And the instructions that came with the gun were like a comic book, no words, all pictures.

Hmmm I vaguely remember something like that with the M16...

 

[raftman]

While I wouldn't call it the actual worst, I never will understand why Italy went into WW2 with a .380 pocket pistol as their sidearm (Beretta M1934). It even has only a 7-rd magazine! What's more, it remained in service well past WW2, with some branches of the Italian military never adopting the Beretta M1951… meaning it remained in service until the Beretta 92!


(P38 for scale).

 

[CountryGent]

Used by the Italian army in ww1 and some again in ww2. 10.4mm, some found recently in Ethiopian storage..

Curiosity got the better of me. It appears Tiger Imports has some. For funky weirdness, I'm intrigued. (Well, not enough to acquire. But it is interesting their back on the milsurp market for being gone for so long.)