During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a large number of foreign weapons participated in the War of Resistance at home, and Chinese gave these weapons a very appropriate nickname, of which the pistol had "one shot, two horses and three flower mouths", these three pistols were designed by the American firearms designer John Moses Browning, of which "one shot" and "three flower mouth" were produced by the Belgian FN company, "two horses" were produced by The Colt company, and today we mainly talk about the "one shot", that is, the Browning M1900 pistol.
Browning M1900 pistol
In 1896, John Moses Browning designed a self-defense semi-automatic pistol using the traditional free bolt-action principle of operation, re-re-springing in a tube above the barrel, which Browning initially wanted to be produced by Winchester but was rejected on defective grounds, and Browning was immediately changed to be produced by the Belgian FN Hirstal company, the first pistol produced by the company to be designed by Browning.
M1900 pistol caliber 7.65 mm Colt automatic pistol cartridge, effective range of 30 meters, bullet capacity of 7 rounds, full gun length 162.5 mm, barrel length 102 mm, full gun mass without magazine 0.615 kg.
The Browning M1900 pistol is a semi-automatic pistol powered by gunpowder gas and a free bolt-style structure. The Browning M1900 pistol was the world's first automatic pistol with a sleeve, using a compound spring with a barrel and a lower barrel. M1900 adopts the firing pin firing principle, the resistance iron directly stuck on the firing pin body to be issued card slot, pull the trigger to release the firing pin, the firing pin directly under the action of the spring to fire the bullet, this structure does not have a hammer mechanism is relatively simple, because there is no exposed hammer when pulling the gun is not easy to hook and hook more suitable as a self-defense weapon.
M1900 pistol vertical section
The firing pin of the M1900 also has its own characteristics, the firing pin of the gun does not have a firing pin spring but uses the elasticity of the re-entry spring through a lever to push the firing pin.
When the upper bullet pulls the sleeve backwards, the re-entry spring guide rod in the upper part of the sleeve re-enters the re-entry reed tube and moves backwards together, and the compression re-entry spring storage elastic firing pin is stuck by the blocking iron, and the gun is loaded after releasing the sleeve, because the firing pin is fixed by the re-entry spring guide rod at this time the re-entry spring guide rod is still in the rear position to remain compressed. Pull the trigger to release the firing pin, the elastic force stored in the re-entry spring can be released, and the firing pin is flicked forward by the lever to fire the bottom of the percussion bullet, thanks to the re-entry spring is relatively coarse and the elastic force is strong, so the firing force of the firing pin is also sufficient, and the firing reliability is very good.
After the birth of the Browning M1900 pistol, there were two famous events in the world that made the gun famous, the first was the assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi at the Harbin Railway Station in China on October 26, 1909, and the second was the assassination of Lenin at the Mikhalsund Factory in the Zarksky District of Moscow on August 30, 1918.
The North Korean resistance fighter Ahn Jung-geun assassinated Ito Hirobumi
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Browning M1900 entered China, and its small but powerful gun quickly became very popular, because the pistol logo on its handle had the nickname of "gun brand pick", and the domestic Jinling Arsenal and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau also paid attention to the M1900 pistol, and in 1919 alone, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau imitated as many as 60,000 gun brand picks.
The reason why the M1900 pistol is called "gun brand pick"
Browning M1900 pistol because of its small size became the welcome of many "decent people" in China at that time, plus many heroes of the secret front at that time also needed a pistol that was carried around and not easy to find, so the M1900 just played this important role, M1900 was the world's first semi-automatic pistol with a sleeve recoil, at that time can get a "gun brand pick", even if it is a domestic product for the military is also a great honor, the gun has become a personal weapon of many army commanders, Many guards judge the identity of the commander by looking at the commander's gun, which is mainly equipped with a battalion-level commander.