I've never liked the term 'false sideplates'. Either a gun has sideplates or it does not.

Used in this context, would not a sidelock gun have 'true sideplates' ? Of course not, it has 'lockplates'.

A 'false sideplate' is a non-entity. We can have sideplates, lockplates, even false lockplates if the intent is make a non-sidelock look like one. But false sideplates?


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