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Morini Factory Tour
(March 2003)

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	The first place that you come to is the grip fitting room where personal attention is given to visiting shooters.
	Interesting to note here the pistols that stay here as a reference due to their popularity with world shooters. One notable gun missing in this category is the Toz Free Pistol, but due to the numerous frame variations a standard fitting can't be made.
	A reference library of grip templates of many of the best shooters in the world is kept here.
	Close up of some of these grips.
	A box of air cylinders waiting to be assembled.
	CM22 sport pistols (foreground) and Free Pistols in assembly stages.
	Here the air cylinders are being filled and given their final testing.
	Air pistols in their production line.
	Free pistols and air pistols ready to be boxed.
	Grips prior to boxing.
	Grip blanks stacked ready to begin the shaping process.
	First step is routing out the inletting to fit the gun's action. This bunch has mixed walnut blanks and blue laminate blanks.
	The grips' outside shape is done on this multiple fixture pantograph.
	Take a closer peek.
	This lady is knocking the rough edges off after the pantograph.
	Ciro uses the belt sander to finish the flat portions of the grips. He also does the master grip fitting.
	Part of the general workshop looking back towards Francesco's office.
	Matteo doing final assembly and trigger tweaking just outside of Francesco's office.
	Here is Francesco himself, in front of a stack of grips waiting to be fitted on pistols.
	Some of the cards and momentos in Francesco's office. Note the blue card in the lower right hand corner from a certain American engraver/airgun seller.
	A closeup of a caricature of Ragnar Skanaker, featuring the various Olympics he has attended.
	This is the "trophy showcase" of many of Francesco's research and development projects from over the years.
	Some of the workers assembling various components of the pistols.
	Careful assembly of some of the trigger components.
	The test range.
	Here are various prototypes of hand pumps that Francesco was developing early on to complement the 162E. Note that these predate the Axsor pump. Francesco also had in his office a small electric pump the size of a coke bottle that he was developing, and paperwork from McDonnell Douglas who were interested in it to cool part of the radar components in the F-18.