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The pistol won the 1935–1937 competition to produce the new French military sidearm; a different pistol in the competition was the similarly named Pistolet automatique modèle 1935S. Initial production of the 1935A began in 1937, and the pistol began delivery to the French Army in late 1939, with a total of about 10,700 pistols built before ...
The FAL (French: Fusil Automatique Léger, English: Light Automatic Rifle) is a battle rifle designed in Belgium by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by FN Herstal and others since 1953. During the Cold War the FAL was adopted by many countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with the notable exception of the United States.
Following the French tradition of state arsenals competing with each other and with private industry, MAC designed and manufactured several well-known French small arms, including the FM 24/29 light machine gun and its derivatives the MAC mle 1931 and MAC 1934 machine guns, as well as the MAC 1950 (later MAS 1950) semi-automatic pistol.
The Belgians designated the rifle as the ABL SAFN-49, ABL is an acronym for the Belgian Army in both French and Dutch; "AB" for the French "Armée Belge" and "BL" for the Dutch "Belgisch Leger". The contracts for the SAFN 1949 rifle made by FN for Belgium totaled 87,777 rifles total, composing almost half of all FN-49 rifles ever produced. [ 7 ]
Schmidt–Rubin rifles (Switzerland – rifle – 1889/1891) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (German Empire – semi-automatic pistol – 1898) Sharps Rifle (US – rifle – 1848) Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 carbine (US – rifle – 1862) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (Austria-Hungary – pistol – 1898) Schönberger-Laumann (Austria-Hungary – pistol ...
The receiver housing is made of a special steel alloy, and the rifle furniture is made of fibreglass. The rifle uses a lever-delayed blowback action, an action type also used in the French AA-52 machine gun derived from the prototypes built during Army Technical Department tests having taken place between the First and Second World Wars.
Semi-automatic pistol 341,900 MAS 1873 revolver: Revolver 337,000 Bodeo Model 1889: Revolver Italy: 300,000 Tipo A enlisted version only. M1917 revolver: Revolver United States: 300,000 Steyr M1912: Semi-automatic pistol Austria-Hungary: 300,000 Pistolet modèle An XIII: Flintlock pistol France: 300,000 MAS-49: Semi-automatic rifle 295,840 Chauchat
The Ballester–Molina was predominantly used by Argentina's security forces. The Argentine Army adopted it as its standard sidearm in 1938. The Ballester–Molina is a short recoil-operated semi-automatic locked breech pistol. The locking system is a near-identical copy of the Model 1911's, with the swinging lock used to unlock the barrel from ...