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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 'Broomhandle' Mauser details the development, usage, and impact of the Mauser C96, in Germany, its country of origin, and later via unlicensed foreign copies. The book is heavily illustrated, as Ferguson, who works at the Royal Armouries Museum, was able to photograph C96s from the museum.
The Bergmann MP34/I and MP35/I were offered in 9×25mm Mauser in addition to other calibers. [10] SIG automatic carbine models MKMO, MKMS, MKPO and MKPS were produced in Switzerland from 1933 until 1942 with 9×25mm Mauser caliber as an option. [11] The Scotti OM 42 was an experimental Italian submachine gun in 9×25mm Mauser. [12]
The Mauser Model 1895 adopted as Fusil Mauser Chileno Mo 1895 [17] by Chilean forces, is a bolt operated magazine fed rifle using the 7×57mm Mauser cartridge. It is the first major modification of the Mauser Model 1893 and was produced by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, known as DWM, and Ludwig Loewe Company from 1895 to 1900. [18]
The FN Model 1924 series is a line of Mauser Gewehr 98 pattern bolt-action rifles produced by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale.They are similar to the Czech vz. 24 rifle, however have an intermediate length (215mm/ 8.46 in.) action, featuring open sights, 7.65×53mm, 7×57mm or 8×57mm IS chambering, Long rifle, Short Rifle and carbine-length barrels, hardwood stocks, and straight or curved bolt ...
Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH resumed the production of the Mauser models M 98 and M 98 Magnum again, according to the original drawings and respective Mauser patents of the Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k. In 2000, Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH and its European sister companies ( J.P. Sauer & Sohn , Blaser and Swiss Arms ) were unified by the German investors ...
The vz. 24 was chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser like its predecessors. Throughout the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Czechoslovakia exported hundreds of thousands of vz. 24 rifles to various countries across the globe, with variants chambered in the original 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7×57mm Mauser, and 7.65×53mm Argentine. These included contracts for ...
After the First World War, the defeated Germany gave numbers of Mauser G.98 and Kar 98AZ to the kingdom. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Fabrique Nationale was manufacturing the FN Model 24 and Model 30, but lack of funding prevented the Army from buying these modern short rifles. In 1935, a new rifle was designed to replace all the rifles ...