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Originally Posted by HANS
The other market for stocked pistols and machine pistols in general was the American underworld of the 1930s. In 1930, Auto-Ordnance, the only relevant manufacturer of submachine guns in the USA, stopped selling them to civilians. Consequently there was a market for both compact weapons with high firepower (stocked Mauser and Luger pistols) and full-automatic weapons of any kind (converted Colt and Mauser machine pistols, Winchester rifles etc).
The former were the more successful types (by several orders of magnitude), the latter were the technically more interesting patterns.
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Have you found any famous crimes where the criminals used pistols with stocks? I think there was just one or two in the gangster arsenals you have posted under Gangster Gats.
I guess its tricky because in the 1920s and 1930s the Mauser C96 and Luger P08/LP08 were almost the only handguns from reputable manufacturers with ten or more rounds in a military calibre. I suppose the Browning Hi-Power came out in 1935 but I get the impression that in the beginning its customers were mostly military.