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The Japanese toy maker Epoch Co. created a dedicated video game console in 1977, the TV Game System 10, which includes as a light gun a plastic replica of a Mauser C96; [107] [108] the C96 replica was also usable with its next console, the Epoch Cassette Vision, created in 1981. [109]
The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893.. The design is based upon the Maxim gun's toggle lock mechanism. The pistol uses a locked breech and a short recoil operating cycle, with the barrel and breech moving backward together for a short distance before the breech is unlocked.
The Pistole Parabellum or Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), commonly known as just the Luger or Luger P08, [10] is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol. The Luger was produced in several models and by several nations from 1898 to 1949.
This gun was released in the early days of automatic pistols, and was a contemporary of the Mauser C96 and Borchardt C-93 pistols. [5] [2] The Bergmann 1894/1896/1897 pistols failed to achieve the same widespread success. [a] There are several variations, but the internal mechanisms remain almost the same in all of them.
Firearms chambered for the 7.63mm Mauser cartridge include the pistol for which it was designed, the Mauser C96 in all variants and copies, the Astra Model 900 and variants, the Schwarzlose Model 1898, the 1911-pattern Star models A and M, [2] and a handful of pre-World War II submachine guns such as the Swiss Bergmann M/20 exported to China ...
The 7.65×21mm Parabellum (designated as the 7,65 Parabellum by the C.I.P. [3] and also known as .30 Luger and 7.65mm Luger) is a rimless, bottleneck, centerfire pistol cartridge that was introduced in 1898 by German arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) for their new Pistol Parabellum.
Kel-Tec has suspended production of these pistols and conversion kits. In 2006, Kel-Tec introduced a single-stack pistol based on the P-11 with engineering improvements borrowed from the P-3AT . The resulting PF-9 pistol weighs about the same loaded as the P-11 empty and is somewhat slimmer.
MP-446 is a short recoil-operated, locked breech pistol. The key differences between MP-446 and MP-443 are the frame material ( polyamide rather than steel) and barrel construction: the barrel of the MP-446 was intentionally weakened to prevent the safe use of high-powered armour-piercing military rounds (i.e. Russian 9x19mm 7N21 type, 9x19mm ...