Only about 3,500 were manufactured, including a few hundred for the U.S. It had a 6-inch barrel, wasn’t very well balanced and not a success on the market. 38 Auto, a cartridge developed by Browning. In fact, the first firearm he created for Colt was the Model 1895 Automatic Machine Gun, a full-auto that was known as the “Potato Digger” in the Spanish-American War.īrowning shifted his focus to handguns, and the next design he did for Colt was a semi-auto pistol, the Model 1900, named for the year that Colt put the gun on the market. Browning was also interested in the idea of self-loading firearms and, as early as 1889, was working on several designs, both full-auto and semi-auto models. Browning had designed several single-shot and repeating rifles in the 1880s and 1890s, some for his own company and some for Winchester, including several of that company’s most famous lever actions. The legendary gunsmith and inventor John M. The revolver was king - both single- and double-action variants - and civilian, law enforcement and military shooters of the day had not yet accepted the concept of the new “automatics.” Colt’s management believed that when the designs of semi-autos were perfected and could be counted on to function reliably, the world of handgunning would be changed forever. In the waning years of the 19th century, Colt was the first American gun manufacturer to take the semi-auto pistol seriously. Property” are especially popular and valuable with collectors.
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