Can this be fixed?

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It can still be used...

if you have a long piece of twine, it will stop your duck decoy from floating away if you tie it securely. :D

Probably what it should have been used for in the first place.
 
If you glue the gun together, someone might try to shoot it. Just throw it away. It was a junk zinc (pot metal) gun to begin with. It should NEVER have been shot with +P ammunition either.
 
There is no market for parts; those guns were pretty much junk to begin with and there were not a lot sold. You could try selling parts to one of the parts supply places, but the cost of shipping would be more than they would pay you.

Jim
 
Use the remnant on your desk as a paperweight. That way you will be reminded that you are damned lucky that you still possess the same number of digits you started with.
 
  • Even if it could be repaired, the result wouldn't be worth what it would cost to fix it.
  • $200 to $300 wouldn't begin to cover the cost of the repair.
  • A gunsmith with the skill to fix that kind of damage would almost certainly be unwilling to expend the effort on anything other than a highly collectible, very valuable firearm.

In the future if a gun locks up while firing and won't operate any longer, it's better to have a gunsmith check it out than to shoot it some more.
 
:eek:

As others have said, you're fortunate that you came away without injury. If you own a similarly crappy pot-metal semi-auto (Jennings, Lorcin, Raven, etc.), apply the lessons that you hopefully learned in this instance to your future use of it.
 
No, it realistically cannot be fixed.

A fracture through that part of the frame is generally considered to be fatal on far higher quality firearms.
 
I'm answering this one before I read what others have to say. The best thing you can do with that gun is sell it for parts. The failure happened in a critical area, I personally would not trust a repair. The gun is done.
 
"Realistically, it is more practical to repair this car used in a 100 MPH crash test than it is to repair your gun."

That's right. Some of that can be buffed out. ;):D

Like a couple others said before, JB Weld it back together & sell it at a police gun buy-back.
 
The repair will pose a few problems:

1. The gun is long discontinued and was imported, thus parts are very hard to come by.

2. The frame is the part that would need to go through an FFL01 dealer and incur the regular transfer fee.

3. I have worked on Korths, Colt and S&W revolvers successfully but found the Roehm with their flimsy coil springs yery complicated to work on.

My advice is to take all parts off the frame and offer it without the frame as a spare parts set on an auction site. Just put it in a clear plastic bag when you open the action up so that you don't loose any springs. At least you can retrieve a small part of your investment and can write the rest off against personal experience.
 
Wouldn't that be about the same as selling parts for a Yugo?
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Perhaps, but if you had a Yugo, I'd bet you would desperately need parts for it! I have to say, I'm really liking the jb-weld idea.
 
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