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The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
Mauser M1915 and M1916 Selbstlader (semi-automatic rifle) Mondragón M1908 (semi-automatic rifle) Reichsrevolver M1879 and M1883; Schwarzlose M1908 (semi-automatic pistol) Seitengewehr 84/98 III (bayonet) Seitengewehr 98/05 (bayonet) Steyr M1912 (semi-automatic pistol) Walther 4 [citation needed] (semi-automatic gun, also known as vest gun ...
The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 commission rifle) was a late 19th-century German bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1888.. The invention of smokeless powder in the late 19th century immediately rendered all of the large-bore black powder rifles then in use obsolete.
The Regal Württemberg Rifle Factory, between the end of the Napoleonic wars and 1850, had only 50 employees and an output of about 200 weapons per year; even in the decades 1850-1870, when the smooth-bore muskets were replaced by rifles and 1868–1871, when 200 employees built the needle-ignition rifles, the factory was in deficit.
11-mm Mauser is the service rifle of the Martian Army in The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. [39] However, the book states these were bought as surplus from the Spanish–American War, which would in fact make them Model 1893 7×57mm Mauser. In the film The Last Samurai, the Japanese Imperial Army carries German bolt-action Mauser M1871/84 ...
Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-15090-3 .
It was invented in 1836 by the German gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse (1787–1867), who had been conducting numerous design experiments since 1824. The name "ignition needle rifle" (German: Zündnadelgewehr) was based on its firing pin, since it passed like a needle through the paper cartridge to strike a percussion cap at the base of the ...
This is an extensive list of antique guns made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.