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Meet the Salvator-Dormus Pistol, the First Semiautomatic Pistol

What was the first-ever semiautomatic pistol? Unless you’re a super hardcore firearms history buff, your first instinct might ...
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The Borchardt C-93 Was the First Mass-Produced Semiautomatic Pistol

The C-93 pistol was designed and invented in 1893 by Hugo Borchardt (June 6, 1844-May 8, 1924), who was born in Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (the present-day capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt ...