thank you for coming in today I looked
through I have your application here and
I see you said you're looking for a
pocket pistol and you wanted it in 22
rimfire that shouldn't be a problem and
now you said full auto and in the box
for rate of fire you have filled in
ludicrous I do think we have the pistol
for you
that would be a trejo model one
thanks for tuning in to another video on
Forgotten weapons comm I'm Ian McCollum
here today at the James D Giulia auction
house taking a look at some of the
machine guns that they're selling in
their upcoming spring of 2017 auction
and as I just alluded to today we have a
trejo model one this is in fact a full
auto little tiny machine pistol that
seems pretty goofy but in reality as is
usually the case there are good
explanations for all of its
characteristics now this this pistol was
manufactured in a little town called
zakat run in puebla mexico and it was
run by while this factory was run by the
Trejo company nothing to do with Trejo
Danny Trejo this was in fact Alexander
Trejo Solis and Gabrielle Trejo so it
was a little family business and in 1948
they started making handguns and by 1970
to 72 they'd made like a hundred
thousand pistols they did four different
models which were descriptively named
the models one two three and four one
and two were both rimfire 22 caliber
rimfire pistols this is a model one
model two is a little bit bigger had an
11 round mag instead of this things
eight round magazine the model two was a
380 I believe they also made some 32
caliber versions for the Mexican
military although I don't know that
those were ever actually adopted and
then in theory the model for was a nine
by nineteen locked breech pistol I
haven't actually seen one that would
have been legally much more difficult
for them to make in Mexico at the time
the vast majority of the guns that you
see are going to be models one and to
some extent too now what's interesting
about these is that in Mexico at the
time full auto was only restricted in
centerfire cartridges which makes sense
from a military point of view but it
left this loophole that if you wanted to
make or buy or own a full auto rimfire
firearm you could do that legally so
Trejo started making the teapot ragga or
high-speed repeat the machine pistol
versions of the models 1 & 2 pistols and
of their hundred thousand pistols made
about 13,000 of those were these little
machine pistols they were legal to own
in Mexico at the time and well I don't
know that there's a whole lot of purpose
to having an eight round capacity 22
caliber pistol that fires at twelve to
fifteen hundred rounds per minute it
sure would be a fun thing I think that
is the that was probably the driving
market force behind their sales was if I
could get this in full auto why not and
by the way they are select fire so you
can just as easily set it to semi-auto
and have a nice little plinking pistol
or flip the lever down to a fog ax and
dump the magazine in about a tenth of a
second until 1968 it was still legal to
import transferable machine guns or
import machine guns from abroad and
register them as transferable that
became a problem in 1968 when the Gun
Control Act passed and one of the things
it did was it didn't end it didn't close
the machine gun registry but it did
prohibit the importation of
transferrable machine guns from outside
the United States so at that point you
can no longer register one of these is
transferable and I'm sure that had a
major impact on tray hos business but
what really killed the Trejo company was
that in 1971 Mexican gun control
regulations became dramatically stricter
and possession of these sorts of pistols
became basically impossible for Mexican
citizens as well at that point the
company just folded by 1972 they were
gone all the leftover parts had been
sold magazines sold done out of business
take a quick view up close before we go
out and shoot this little guy it is
basically modeled after the 1911
although it is a blowback pistol you'll
notice that the hammer comes up high
enough that you cannot see the sights
when the hammer is down so that tells
you that it has gone click and is empty
simple blowback will notice the barrel
doesn't move so no locking system on
this you have a safety on the left side
this is fire that is safe you have the
fire selector lever here on the other
side up that are is rough agha full auto
down is semi-auto
I mean take the magazine out magazine
release is a standard button there and
this is an eighth round single stack
pretty simple little magazine so in the
full auto
when the slide comes forward it trips
the the seer and drops the hammer again
in semi-auto mode it does not you'll
notice a Cho in Mexico so made in Mexico
serial number and on this side we have
all of these standard Trejo markings
east Ola caliber 22 tipo or a fog ax
that means it is a machine pistol and
the manufacturing location is zakopane
Puebla it is a Modelo one and you'll
find that that number changes on the
other versions the Apple there is
because the typical the main industry in
sockets LAN is apple orchards so they
kind of chose that as the the company
emblem and then a Mexican patent number
there's the the Apple and the Trejo name
again in the grips this is just our
slide release functions just like a 1911
would this is gonna be a super fun
little pistol I think this is utterly
devoid of practical utility
aside from massive giggle factor
you
let's do another
you
now to put things in context while the
full-auto versions of the tray are
certainly the ones that get the most
attention the vast majority of the
pistols that trejo made were not they
were just semi-auto pistols in 380 and
22 but of course it's fun to take a look
at this one and despite it being
completely impractical for anything
other than giggling in full auto it's
really good at making people giggle I
would warn people that a 22 a small
machine pistol is a dangerous firearm to
handle you do have to know what you're
doing it's very easy to point something
like this in the wrong direction and
have major safety issues but if you're
comfortable with machine guns and
machine pistols it's a really fun little
thing to have know if you would like to
have it it is of course coming up for
sale at Julia take a look at the
description text below and you'll find a
link to their catalogue page about this
pistol and you can get the whole rundown
on all the spare parts and magazines and
everything else that comes with it as
well as their pictures and description
and you can place a bid on it right
there through the website if you're
interested thanks for watching