What's The Firearm? 20070606

Extra credit for indentifying for whom this special order version with 24K gold finish was built in significant quantity (the buyer later expressing concern about the quality, since the price - many multiples of the standard cost -- seemed too low)

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The purchaser was the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and he ordered 25 of them!

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