Identify the holstered X-rayed gun

[Tired_and_hungry]

Good Morning Folks,

I took the attached image from the website of X-ray photographer and film-maker Nick Veasey at http://www.nickveasey.com/.

What pistol do you think is in the holster? Is there enough detail to tell?

On another point.......I think that it would be a gross violation of privacy and civil rights if the cops or .gov came up with a x-ray scanner that was able to detect exactly what people were carrying as they go about their lives on common streets, malls and other public places.

 

[918v]

CZ75

 

[armoredman]

Ditto, more than enough detail, it's a CZ-75 design based sidearm.

The people using the tech won't care what make and model you have, that can be filled in on the evidence tag later. It's a violation in my mind too, but as we have begun using these scanners at airports, (different system, forget the name), they will spread out to cover "sensitive" areas...and the definition of that will evolve and change.

 

[dcarch]

Old style CZ-75 at that. Look at the hammer.

 

[19-3Ben]

Now that's classy. A pinstripe suit and CZ75 in a should holster. The man's got good taste!

 

[bannockburn]

Have to agree, looks like an original CZ75.

 

[txgunsuscg]

Agree, CZ-75.

 

[cuba]

Yea, well dressed guy but why carry an empty pistol, wait I think I spot a single round in his top shirt pocket, does that count ?

 

[MedWheeler]

On another point.......I think that it would be a gross violation of privacy and civil rights if the cops or .gov came up with a x-ray scanner that was able to detect exactly what people were carrying as they go about their lives on common streets, malls and other public places.

I thought similar technology with exactly that idea behind it was already being marketed toward the powers that be in NYC..?

 

[skeeziks]

You do realize that's not a real X-Ray, right?
Your clothes do not show up on the image...let alone the pinstripes.

 

[Plan2Live]

I was thinking Browning High Power or CZ 75 but couldn't say for sure. However, the poor chap's vertabrae are badly misaligned around C3 and C4. Not to mention the left and right clavicals are asymetrical. Was the poor chap in an accident at some point?

 

[Arp32]

Finally, a thread where no one suggests a Glock

 

[gunnysmith]

Are the rounds in the magazine in backwards?

 

[Arthur2001]

CZ 75 pre-b

 

[Arthur2001]

Rounded trigger guard gives an important clue

 

[Godsgunman]

SHEEZIKS- I am a radiology technologist so I work with radiation all day everyday and yes clothes can and will show. Its all in the technique used to obtain the image.
As far as law enforcement being able to carry around a machine to scan random people, HIGHLY improbable (impossible even) and against so many laws and health regulations I don't see it ever possible. To produce x-rays in the first place you have to have a very high voltage power source (not easily portable) and all the lead shielding, anode, cathode, everything that makes the x-rays themselves. The smallest machines made are the portable ones used in hospitals and if you've seen those they aren't small and easily over 300+ pounds. So NO LEOs will be carrying these around scanning people anytime soon.

 

[skeeziks]

SHEEZIKS- I am a radiology technologist so I work with radiation all day everyday and yes clothes can and will show. Its all in the technique used to obtain the image.

So his pinstripes are made of some sort of metal then?
I had a pinstripe suit once but the stripes were simply a lighter colored thread. And I also noticed this chap wasn't wearing any underwear.

 

[jim243]

Interesting photoshop job, since he is not wearing the holster and gun. The x-ray of the gun was done on a flat surface and then added to the picture of the man. Having 5 shoulder holsters, they do not fit the body that way.

Jim

 

[Godsgunman]

SHEEZIKS- no it doesn't mean the pinstripes have metal in them. With digital x-ray systems you can emphasize what you want and how you want. I don't have the desire or time to go into great detail on this with you. But I can take a chest film and I can take out all the bone and just leave all the soft tissue and lung detail to be seen. I can also remove all the soft tissue detail and just see the bones. This is done by a very quick double exposure, one of high penetration and one of low penetration. It all depends on what Im looking for and why (which this is done to look for lung cancer). Digital x-rays can be "doctored" up just as easily as a digital photo. Granted you have to have the right software also to do it which most clinics and small hospitals don't feel the need to spend the money on. Also when we do a typical medical x-ray we don't want to see the overlying clothing so we use techniques that overpenetrates them.

 

[Snag]

Nice watch.

 

[wojownik]

There was a thread about invasive public scanner technology here on THR four months ago or so. NYPD is looking seriously at the technology called terahertz imaging detection. It measures the energy radiating from a body up to 16 feet away, and can detect anything blocking it - like a weapon.

So the NYPD logic is that if they scan you and can tell your carrying something dense enough to block body heat, that gives probable cause for a search. They NYPD can't seem to come to terms with the idea that they need PC to scan someone in the first place.

Oh, and nice CZ, nice watch and - for skeeziks - it's his right to go commando, though I personally wouldn't want to in a wool pinstripe suit. Itchy in all the wrong places...

By the way, anyone else things the sleeves on the suit look to flat at the wrist, like they're laying out flat.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Interesting photoshop job, since he is not wearing the holster and gun. The x-ray of the gun was done on a flat surface and then added to the picture of the man. Having 5 shoulder holsters, they do not fit the body that way.

Jim

I'm not buyin' it either. No weight on the strap "over" his shoulder, the firearm presents flat to the front, no visible cross stabilizer/locator or interface with his belt.

I'd say the fella oughta get those frontal discolorations (right and worse left) on his brain checked out though.

 

[MedWheeler]

Wojownik writes:

There was a thread about invasive public scanner technology here on THR four months ago or so. NYPD is looking seriously at the technology called terahertz imaging detection. It measures the energy radiating from a body up to 16 feet away, and can detect anything blocking it - like a weapon.

Yeah, that's what it was..

So the NYPD logic is that if they scan you and can tell your carrying something dense enough to block body heat, that gives probable cause for a search. They NYPD can't seem to come to terms with the idea that they need PC to scan someone in the first place.

Or even if, once scanned, PC to investigate whether or not it's actually a weapon, since there is no law against simply carrying something "heavy" on one's person.

 

[armarsh]

Must be an H und K.

 

[Weevil]

Could be a Tanfoglio Witness, an Italian clone of the CZ-75 that uses a round trigger guard.


On second glance no the Witness didn't use a spur hammer, yeah I'd tend to agree it a pre-B CZ.