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Old 06-23-2022, 03:32 PM   #11
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Default Re: Top Handgun of the early WWI era?

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The Webley-Fosbery gives you techie credibility, and it's still in commercial production until 1924 and sold until 1939 (and it shows up in The Maltese Falcon); it's popular with target shooters, and .455 Webley is readily available from the UK. But probably only about 5,000 were made over its production lifetime, while over 68,000 1911s have been delivered to US forces by 1918.
My dad owned one of these. It's a strong contender.
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Old 06-24-2022, 03:58 PM   #12
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Default Re: Top Handgun of the early WWI era?

A Steyr M.12 would be an outsider candidate. It was on commercial sale in 1911, before it was adopted by the Austro-Hungarian empire, and over a million were made by the end of production in 1919. It's in Pulp Guns I.

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Old 06-24-2022, 11:57 PM   #13
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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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