![]() If that sounds vaguely familiar, it is the way almost every semi-auto pistol in the world works, only the Mauser’s barrel and slide were one piece. ![]() In 1893, German arms designer Hugo Borchardt and his colleague Georg Luger developed the Borchardt Automatic Repeating Pistol, an unusual-looking gun that held within its design Georg Luger’s toggle-lock action, which would become the foundation for Luger’s remarkably successful 9mm introduced in 1900.Īnother soon-to-be-famous German arms-maker, Peter Paul Mauser, had introduced an entirely different approach to the Borchardt and Luger designs in 1895 using a bolt mechanism inside the slide to extract and eject the spent cartridge casing, cock the hammer and strip a fresh cartridge from the magazine as the slide rebounded and closed. The 1892 Schönberger-Laumann pistol was one of the first autoloaders ever produced. ![]() The first real breakthrough was by an Austrian designer named Joseph Laumann, whose patent was assigned to the Österreichische Waffenfabrik Gesellschaft at Steyr in Austria. ![]() The magazine held seven cartridges and was released by a spring-tensioned lever at the heel of the grip.Įven before the turn of the last century, gun-makers were working in earnest to design a practical self-loading pistol. The Model 1905’s slide locked back after the last round was fired. ![]()
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