Javier Traba Pistolas: https://www.youtube.com/@TrabaPistolas/videos
When the Colombian government wanted a locally produced service pistol for its military and security services, it turned to Indumil – the government-owned small arms factory. Indumil already had a license from IMI to produce Galil rifles (both the older AR and the new Ace), and they leveraged the tools and materials from the Galil into the new pistol. Named “Córdova” after
José María Córdova, a young military hero from Colombia’s (and Bolivia’s and Peru’s) fight for independence from Spain, the gun uses a modular fire control system in a polymer frame, with a slide design modeled in part from the IMI Jericho. It is a DA/SA, hammer fired, 9x19mm pistol with a Browning tilting-barrel locking system.
Production began in 2014, and has continued ever since with tens of thousands now made and in use by Colombian military and police units. This pistol has gone through several improvement cycles during that time and it is a quite good handgun, if not particularly unorthodox. In addition to the Standard (Estandar) model in the video, they also produce a compact model and a tactical model.
Many thanks to Indumil for giving me access to film in their factory, and to Javier for letting me use his Cordova!
It seems like the umpteenth variation of the Tanfoglio Force 99 (yeah, the Jericho is one). The pins that lock the frame to the firing group are still in the same position, and the The firing pin block still seems the standard Tanfoglio one (and IWI Jericho obviously), that works the other way round than what Ian explained. As long as the firing control group pushes it up, the weapon can’t fire. When trigger is pressed, the spring loaded block can go down, and the firing pin block is released. That way the trigger group doesn’t have to fight vs. the firing pin block spring, but it’s helped by it.
The way Ian explained is how the CZ75 firing pin block works.
“Where’s Ian?” is getting as extreme as “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”. Where next? I am voting for Mars to show off the latest Martian ray guns, hosted by Marty the Martian, of course.
I like the pistol being hammer fired. Glad to see a manufacturer willing to “buck the tread” when they think they don’t just have to do what everybody else is doing. And there is obvious attention to small details, like the rail cover and recessed crown.
Seems like a great pistol. Too bad it is not imported to the US. I wonder what the price in Columbia is.