Borchardt C-93

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Borchardt C-93

Type Semi-automatic pistol
Place of origin Flag of German Empire German Empire
Production history
Designer Hugo Borchardt
Designed 1893
Manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Company
Specifications
Cartridge 7.65x25mm Borchardt
Action toggle-lock
Feed system Detachable box magazine

The Borchardt C-93 pistol was designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. Ludwig Loewe & Company of Berlin, Germany, a manufacturer of machine tools, produced the C-93, a semi-automatic pistol that he had invented based upon the Maxim toggle-lock principle. He also developed the 7.65x25mm Borchardt cartridge around which the C-93 was built. The Borchardt C-93 was the first semi-automatic pistol to be made in appreciable numbers.

The Borchardt pistol was expensive to produce. Furthermore, its recoil was unexpectedly powerful. Georg Luger studied the Borchardt design and developed the Luger Parabellum pistol in the late 1890s.

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Borchardt C-93 in its holster
Borchardt C-93 in its holster
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