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An early C96 prototype "Red 9" Mauser C96 with stock Within a year of its introduction in 1896, the C96 had been sold to governments and commercially to civilians and individual military officers. The Mauser C96 pistol was extremely popular with British officers at the time, and many purchased it privately.
The Spanish gunmaker Astra-Unceta y Cia began producing a copy of the Mauser C.96 in 1927 [1] that was externally similar to the C96 (including the presence of a detachable shoulder stock/holster) but with non-interlocking internal parts. It was produced until 1941, with a production hiatus in 1937 and 1938, and a final batch assembled from ...
The distinctive characteristics of the C96 are the integral 10-round, box magazine in front of the trigger, the long barrel, the wooden shoulder stock which gives it the stability of a short-barreled rifle and doubles as a holster or carrying case, and a unique grip shaped like the handle of a broom.
Mauser C96 in 9 mm Luger. Mauser branched out into pistol design in 1896, producing the C96, commonly known as "broomhandle," designed by the three brothers Fidel, Friedrich, and Josef Feederle [20] (often erroneously spelled "Federle"). All versions used detachable shoulder stock holsters.
The 7.8mm Bergmann was designed in direct competition with the 7.63×25mm Mauser cartridge, used in the rival Mauser C96 pistol design. [1] The most obvious change was a more modern detachable 10-shot magazine housed in front of the trigger. [2] The magazine could be still fed by a stripper clip. Most were sold with a hollow shoulder stock.
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The incident happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday in the city of Olive Branch, located about 25 miles outside of Memphis, the local police department confirmed to USA TODAY.
During World War I, a machine pistol version of the Steyr M1912 called the Repetierpistole M1912/P16 was produced. It used a 16-round fixed magazine loaded via 8 round stripper clips, a detachable shoulder stock and a rather large exposed semi-auto/full-auto selector switch on the right side of the frame above the trigger (down = semi & up = full). [3]