Rich - Considering the relatively few Detonics pistols made, it is interesting how many stories there are concerning the guns and their maker. In fact, it seems like everyone who has a Detonics, has a story to go with it! My gun "came out of the woodwork" in 1999. A guy showed up at a local shop with two unfired Combat Masters, a Mk. I and a Mk. VI. He was a printer, who had been working Detonics' catalog, and when they went belly-up, they paid him with the two guns. He wasn't a shooter, but he held onto the guns for ten years. The serial number on my gun indicates it was made in '79 or '80; what was it still doing at the factory ten years later? I work right across the street from the Seattle Tower, where Detonics was headquartered. Not much gun manufacturing history outside of New England, so it's neat to be so close. I found the address of the old facility in Bellevue, and was thinking of driving out to see what's there. Probably a strip mall.