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The Model 1913 was the first semi-automatic produced by Smith & Wesson. It generally followed a design introduced by Charles Philibert Clement [2] in 1903 initially chambered for the 5mm Clement and after 1906 for the .25 ACP. [1] First Type—The grip safety was operated by pressing it to the rear.
Approximately 8,350 Model 1913 had been made when production stopped about 1921. Smith & Wesson shifted production to their Model 32 self-loading pistol chambered for the .32 ACP from 1924 to 1937. No other firearms were chambered for the .35 S&W, and the cartridge is considered obsolete, and ammunition is rare and highly collectible. [4]
The improved model was adopted in September 1916 as the Pistola Campo-Giro de 9mm, Modelo 1913-16. However, by 1919 the Spanish military had begun looking for yet another new pistol. [ 2 ] However they did not stray far, as the Campo-Giro was the direct forerunner of the Astra tubular slide guns such as the Astra Modelo de 1921/Model 400 which ...
Le Français (pistol) Manufrance.25 ACP.32 ACP.22 Long Rifle 9mm Browning Long France: 1913 Lewis Automatic Pistol.45 ACP United States: 1919 Liliput pistol: Waffenfabrik August Menz: 4.25mm Liliput.25 ACP Weimar Republic: 1920 Little Tom Pistol: Wiener Waffenfabrik.25 ACP.32 ACP Austrian Empire Kingdom of Hungary Czechoslovakia: 1908 Llama M82
The Modelo 1913 was a delayed blowback design, unusual in a gun chambered for a powerful military cartridge. The Campo-Giro used a powerful spring to handle the recoil of the 9mm Largo cartridge, and had a smaller spring beneath the barrel to serve as a shock absorber and delay the opening of the breach.
Pistol version is designed with a Neilsen which allows it to be used with most of the common John Browning tilting-barrel designs, including the swinging-linked M1911 and the cam-lock system operated Glock pistols. The Neilsen is an assembly in the aft end of the suppressor that allows the gasses to push the suppressor forward while allowing ...
Llama Firearms, officially known as Llama-Gabilondo y Cia SA, was a Spanish arms company founded in 1904 under the name Gabilondo and Urresti.Its headquarters were in Eibar in the Basque Country, Spain, but they also had workshops during different times in Elgoibar and Vitoria.
Steyr pistols are marked with a three-digit date code on the slide just forward of the ejection port. The first letter represents the month of manufacture. The second and third letters represent the last two digits of the year of manufacture. In this example, the date code "BOY" indicates a pistol manufactured in April 2007.