![]() ![]() ![]() ĭWM employed Georg Luger to promote the Borchardt pistol in military and commercial channels. The pistol used a toggle lock system, which meant that when the gun fired, a two-piece arm rose and flexed as the gun recoiled, thus allowing the breech to unlock and release the empty cartridge case. The Borchardt C93 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic pistol. With about 1,100 manufactured by Loewe and nearly 2,000 more produced by Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken. Machine tool manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Company of Berlin, Germany, produced the C93 in anticipation of military orders. His assistant at the time, Georg Luger, also claimed to have influenced its design. The design is based upon the Maxim gun's toggle lock model.īorchardt developed the high-velocity, bottlenecked 7.65×25mm Borchardt cartridge for the C93. The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. ![]()
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