made reproductions of the Mauser 1917 Trench Carbine and C96 pistol, named the M713 and M714 respectively. In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the Federal Ordnance firearms company in South El Monte, U.S.A. But in the 1990s, the Chinese designed a new type of pistol, the QSZ-92,which was adopted as the standard-issue pistol by both the military and most of the police forces later and replaced most of the pistols in their service, including the Type 80. The Type 80 is said to have an effective firing range of 100 metres (about 109 yards)and a muzzle velocity of 470 meters per second (about 1542 fps).It was designed to replace some of the PLA's Type 54s (Chinese copies of Soviet Tokarev TT pistol, the Type 54 was the standard service pistol of the PLA from the 1950s to the 1990s), especially Type 54s in service in the Chinese special forces, as a small, light weapon which was asked to be good at both attacking and personal defending, similar to that of a PDW. The Type 80 features a different grip similar to that on a TT-33 but seems narrower than that of a standard TT-33. A 10-round box magazine is also available for the firearm. It is based on the C96 which was widely used in China since the 1900s and is chambered for the Type 51 cartridge (Chinese copies of the Soviet 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridge), but it is fed by a 20-round detachable box magazine instead of the 10-round undetachable magazine in a standard C96. Type 80 is a machine pistol designed in late-20th Century by the People's Republic of China. It took standard detachable 10-round box magazines, although they can also take the extended 20- and 40-round magazines. For the record, 295 PASAMs were left in the original condition. In both models, of course, the barrel was left free so as to enable it to do its short recoil during firing. A metal frame attached to the receiver supported a rectangular wooden foregrip, taking pressure off the barrel. The pistol grip frame used thicker rectangular wooden grips and had a 1.5-foot (460 mm) 't-bar' metal shoulder stock welded to it. The second modification (PASAM MOD-2), involving 89 pistols, featured a similar frame extension, but the forward grip had wooden panels and was of different shape.

The original grip was left alone, making it compatible with the wooden holster/stock. It was fitted with a metal forward grip well ahead of the gun under the muzzle. The first modification (PASAM MOD-1), of which 101 were modified, received a metal frame extension welded to the magazine housing.

In 1970, the Policia Militar do Rio de Janeiro (PMRJ) asked the services of Jener Damau Arroyo, a Spanish-born gunsmith, to make modifications on their PASAMs in order to improve their handling.

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