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  2. FN M1900 - Wikipedia

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    Browning's earliest 1895 pistol prototype. John Browning started his work on semi-automatic pistols in 1894, when he mostly finalized the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. [2] He initially tried to use the same gas action with a swinging piston, with a prototype ready to be shown to Colt in July 1895, [3] and applied for a patent [4] in ...

  3. Mauser C96 - Wikipedia

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    The Mauser C96 (Construktion 96) [12] is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937. [13] Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20th century.

  4. Bergmann 1896 - Wikipedia

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    The Bergmann 1894/1896/1897 was a family of 19th-century semi-automatic pistols developed by German designer Louis Schmeisser and sold by Theodor Bergmann's company. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] 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. List of semi-automatic pistols - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Borchardt C-93 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Semi-automatic pistol - Wikipedia

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    A Glock 22 semi-automatic pistol chambered in .40 S&W with a tactical light mounted below its barrel.. A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol [1]) is a repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every shot fired, but only one round of ammunition is fired each time the trigger is pulled.

  8. Colt M1902 - Wikipedia

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    American gun designer John M. Browning wished to join contemporaries such as Hugo Borchardt and Georg Luger in designing a marketable semi-automatic pistol. Browning partnered with the Colt's Manufacturing Company which was hoping to capitalize on the interest in service pistol modernization by procuring large and profitable government military ...

  9. MP-443 Grach - Wikipedia

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    The PYa is a high-capacity, double-action, short-recoil semi-automatic pistol. Barrel/ slide locking is a simplified Colt – Browning design, similar to that found in many modern pistols (for example the SIG Sauer and Glock families of pistols); the breech end of the barrel is rectangular in shape, rather than rounded, and fits into matching ...