MANURHIN MR 73.

Chapuis Armes has purchased the renowned Manurhin range of revolvers and manufactures it on original production machinery and tooling in a new facility built to achieve full availability of these world-class quality handguns. Manurhin revolvers fulfill the requirements of hunter, target shooters and law-enforcement officers. Manurhin revolvers are made with the same excellence in attention to quality that made the Chapuis Armes range of single or double barrel break-open rifles and shotguns a world standard. Chapuis Armes maintains the tradition of professional European gun-making, blending it with the most modern manufacturing techniques, quality and service assets to fulfill customer requirements. The MANURHIN MR73 is standard issue with France's elite police and military Special Weapons and Tactics teams (R.A.I.D., G.I.G.N. and comparable units). Quite a few European and world champions have used MR73 revolvers to take many national and world records All the .38/.357 Manurhins have the option of using a second cylinder chambered for the 9x19mm (9mm Parabellum). BARRELS are produced using the cold-hammering technique from ordnance-certified alloyed steel blanks also procured from Aubert & Duval. The cold hammer-forging process increases the density of the steel fibers by displacing them. CIP standard maximum allowable pressure of the .357 Magnum cartridge: 2x3,200 bar is 6,400 bar or 92,8000 psi.