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Meet the Salvator-Dormus Pistol, the First Semiautomatic Pistol
These two gentlemen also designed the Skoda Heavy Machine Gun M1893 (aka, the Salvator-Dormus M1893), which fired the 8×50mmR Mannlicher round. The gun differed from many others in that it had ...
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Meet the Salvator-Dormus Pistol, the First Semiautomatic Pistol
Say hello to the Salvator-Dormus pistol, made in Austria-Hungary. The gun differed from many others in that it had been designed from the ground up as a semiauto pistol, rather than a modification ...