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Old 06-24-2022, 11:57 PM   #6
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Default Re: Top Handgun of the early WWI era?

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
For _some_ semi-automatics it s no longer true. Unreliable semi-automatics will be common for at least another 50 years.

Of course, many of those semi-automatics are in small low velocity calibers but surely no one chooses a Baby Browning for anything other than concealability.
A few remain in production despite being still unreliable... Jennings' .22LR pistols come to mind. (not just unreliable - a takeaway comes away with the upper receiver rather than the whole weapon...)

And while the 9mmP and the .45 are the best known rounds of the era, the Belgian Nagant was widespread export revolver, including to both Tsarist and Soviet Russia... in 3 different chamberings... 9.4mm (Belgium, Holland), 7.5mm (Luxembourg, Sweeden, Norway, Tsarist Russia), 7.62mm (Soviet licensed). Spain copied it, too. In all of those, as a military sidearm.
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