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Description: | 1915
6045 c +
The Parabellum pistol was designed in the 1890s by Georg Luger, an employee of the German arms making company Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken. Luger's name has since supplanted the pistol's trade-name 'Parabellum' in common use. His design was a development on an earlier DWM product - the Borchardt pistol.
Central to the concept was a method of breech locking which employed a toggle-action, similar to that employed in Maxim machine-guns. Parabellums were made to a high standard and continued to be made by various manufacturers until the early years of the Second World War.
The Parabellum was sold commercially and also purchased by several European armies. The German Navy adopted a version in 1904, followed by the German Army in 1908. The year of adoption gave the latter its military designation: Pistole 08.
pistol & magazine (8) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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