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The "Box cannon" C96 mauser

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The PO8 Luger? Or the C96 Mauser?

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What the fuck

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The morning of May 18th, eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia. The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools. We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency., eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia.

The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools.

We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency.

2018

May 18 | Mount Zion High School

The name of this victim has not yet been released.

May 18 | Santa Fe High School

Jared Black

Shana Fisher

Christian Riley Garcia

Aaron Kyle McLeod

Glenda Ann Perkins

Angelique Ramirez

Sabika Sheikh

Christopher Jake Stone

Cynthia Tisdale

Kimberly Vaughan

March 20 | Great Mills High School

Jaelynn Willey

March 7 | Huffman High School

Courtlin Arrington

February 14 | Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Alyssa Alhadeff

Martin Duque Anguiano

Scott Beigel

Nicholas Dworet

Aaron Feis

Jaime Guttenberg

Chris Hixon

Luke Hoyer

Cara Loughran

Gina Montalto

Joaquin Oliver

Alaina Petty

Meadow Pollack

Helena Ramsay

Alex Schachter

Carmen Schentrup

Peter Wang

January 31 | Lincoln High School

Ralph Kennedy

January 23 | Marshall County High School

Preston Ryan Cope

Bailey Nicole Holt

2017

December 7 | Aztec High School

Francisco "Paco" Fernandez Jr.

Casey Jordan

November 14 | Rancho Tehama Elementary School

Danny Lee Elliot

Barbara Ann Gilsan

Michelle Iris McFadyen

Joseph Edward McHugh III

Diana Lee Steele

September 13 | Freeman High School

Sam Strahan

April 10 | North Park Elementary School

Karen Elaine Smith

Jonathan Martinez

2016

September 28 | Townville Elementary School

Jacob Hall

Jeffrey Osborne

June 8 | Jeremiah Burke High School

Raekwon Brown

February 12 | Independence High School

May Kieu

2015

November 20 | Mojave High School

Taylor Brantley

February 15 | Tenaya Middle School

Benito Aguirre

2014

November 20 | Miami Carol City High School

Khambrel Manning

October 24 | Marysville Pilchuck High School

Shaylee Chuckulnaskit

Andrew Fryberg

Zoe Galasso

Gia Soriano

October 3 | Langston Hughes High School

Kristofer Hunter

August 14 | Saunders Elementary School

John A. Nieves Jr.

Bryant Wilder Jr.

June 10 | Reynolds High School

Emilio Hoffman

April 21 | St. Mary Catholic School

Nina Castro

April 11 | East English Village Preparatory Academy

Darryl Smith

2013

December 13 | Arapahoe High School

Claire Davis

October 21 | Sparks Middle School

Michael Landsberry

August 23 | North Panola High School

Roderick Bobo

January 7 | Apostolic Revival Center Christian School

Kristopher Smith

2012

December 14 | Sandy Hook Elementary School

Charlotte Bacon

Daniel Barden

Rachel D'Avino

Olivia Engel

Josephine Gay

Dawn Hochsprung

Dylan Hockley

Madeleine Hsu

Catherine Hubbard

Chase Kowalski

Nancy Lanza

Jesse Lewis

Ana Márquez-Greene

James Mattioli

Grace McDonnell

Anne Marie Murphy

Emilie Parker

Jack Pinto

Noah Pozner

Caroline Previdi

Jessica Rekos

Avielle Richman

Lauren Rousseau

Mary Sherlach

Victoria Leigh Soto

Benjamin Wheeler

Allison Wyatt

October 19 | Banner Academy South High School

Terrance Wright

March 6 | Episcopal School of Jacksonville

Dale Regan

February 27 | Chardon High School

Demetrius Hewlin

Russell King Jr.

Daniel Parmertor

2011

March 30 | Worthing High School

Tremaine De Ante' Paul

January 5 | Millard South High School

Vicki Kaspar

2010

October 1 | Alisal High School

Jose Daniel Cisneros

February 5 | Discovery Middle School

Todd Brown

2008

November 12 | Dillard High School

Amanda Collette

October 16 | Henry Ford High School

Christopher Walker

August 21 | Central High School

Ryan McDonald

August 14 | Lakota Middle School

Omero Mendez

February 12 | E.O. Green Junior High School

Lawrence "Larry" King

2007

January 3 | Henry Foss High School

Samnang Kok

2006

October 2 | West Nickel Mines School

Naomi Rose Ebersol

Marian Stoltzfus Fisher

Lena Zook Miller

Mary Liz Miller

Anna Mae Stoltzfus

September 29 | Weston High School

John Klang

September 27 | Platte Canyon High School

Emily Keyes

August 30 | Orange High School

Rafael Castillo

August 24 | Essex Elementary School

Linda Lambesis

Mary Alicia Shanks

2005

November 8 | Campbell County High School

Ken Bruce

March 21 | Red Lake Senior High School

Derrick Brun

Dewayne Lewis

Chase Lussier

Daryl Lussier

Neva J. Rogers

Chanelle Rosebear

Michelle Sigana

Thurlene Stillday

Alicia White

March 2 | Cumberland City, Tennessee

Joyce Gregory

2004

February 2 | Ballou High School

James Richardson

2003

September 24 | Rocori High School

Seth Bartell

Aaron Rollins

April 24 | Red Lion Area Junior High School

Eugene Segro

April 14 | John McDonogh High School

Jonathan Williams

2002

February 20 | Washington High School

Joseph Johnson Jr.

2001

March 30 | Lew Wallace High School

Neal Boyd IV

March 5 | Santana High School

Randy Gordon

Bryan Zuckor

2000

May 26 | Lake Worth Middle School

Barry Grunow

February 29 | Buell Elementary School

Kayla Rolland

1999

November 19 | Deming Middle School

Araceli Tena

April 20 | Columbine High School

Cassie Bernall

Steve Curnow

Cory DePooter

Kelly Fleming

Matthew Kechter

Daniel Mauser

Daniel Rohrbough

Rachel Scott

Isaiah Shoels

John Tomlin

Lauren Townsend

Kyle Velasquez

William "Dave" Sanders

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Wheelgun Wednesday: Book Review – “Revolver: Sam Colt And The Six Shooter That Changed America”

A look at the Life of Samuel Colt Besides being fun to shoot, guns can also be works of art or marvels of engineering.  Understanding the man or men who designed a particular firearm can give one a better appreciation for the firearm in one’s hand.  Whether its Peter Paul von Mauser, John Moses Browning, […]

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Wheelgun Wednesday: Book Review – “Revolver: Sam Colt And The Six Shooter That Changed America”

A look at the Life of Samuel Colt Besides being fun to shoot, guns can also be works of art or marvels of engineering.  Understanding the man or men who designed a particular firearm can give one a better appreciation for the firearm in one’s hand.  Whether its Peter Paul von Mauser, John Moses Browning, […]

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Wheelgun Wednesday: Book Review – “Revolver: Sam Colt And The Six Shooter That Changed America”

A look at the Life of Samuel Colt Besides being fun to shoot, guns can also be works of art or marvels of engineering.  Understanding the man or men who designed a particular firearm can give one a better appreciation for the firearm in one’s hand.  Whether its Peter Paul von Mauser, John Moses Browning, […]

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From the Guns.com Warehouse: A Crop of Mauser Pistols (PHOTOS)

Currently on the table for sale in the Guns.com warehouse are a C96, byf44-code P-38, and a late model HSc. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

Established in 1871, Mauser is best known for their rifles but also produced several innovative pistol designs as well, and we have several up for grabs in the Guns.com warehouse.

The German gun maker renowned for their bolt guns produced companion handgun lines almost from the beginning, starting with their M1877 singe-shot pistols and Model 1878 “Zig Zag” revolvers. Then came perhaps the best semi-auto pistol of its era, the C96 “Broomhandle.”

The C96 was made in Germany through the 1930s and as unlicensed clones in Spain, China and elsewhere (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

Produced from 1897 to 1938 by Mauser, the C96 was designed by the trio of Feederle brothers (Fidel, Friedrich, and Josef) in conjunction with Peter Paul Mauser. Chambered originally in 7.63x25mm, the gun was sandwiched between the early and largely experimental semi-autos of the late 19th Century such as the Borchardt C-93 and more advanced designs such as John Browning’s FN1900.

Our C96 currently in stock looks to be a wartime (as in World War I) commercial model with a serial number in the 300,000 range. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

Chambered in 7.63×25, the sights are optimistically graduated to 1,000 meters. Using a 10-shot stripper-clip fed fixed magazine forward of the trigger guard, the C96 would later go on to become famous as the basis of fictional space smuggler Han Solo’s blaster in the Star Wars franchise.

The example currently in stock seems to have been reblued. Note the Neue Sicherung (NS) safety trigger (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

By the time Mauser eventually retired the C96 in the late 1930s, the German Army had adopted the then-new P-38 of fellow German gunmaker Carl Walther. That gun went on to remain in production in one form or another for over 40 years and armed the German military well into the 21st Century, a record of longevity only realistically bested by the Browning Hi-Power and Colt 1911.

The 9mm single stack Walther-designed P-38 was Germany’s principal handgun in WWII (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

During WWII, demand was so high for these pistols that they were made not only by Walther but also by Spreewerk and Mauser, with the latter company cranking out over 300,000 pistols before the French Army took over management of the plant in 1945.

The Mauser-made P-38 9mm in the Guns.com warehouse bears WaA135 Waffenamp inspection stamps and the byf44 manufacturer’s code used by Mauser for these WWII era guns. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

About a third of P-38s made during WWII were produced by Mauser. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

At about the same time Mauser was putting the C96 Broomhandle to bed, they retired their compact M1914/34 series .32ACP pocket pistol as well.

The M1914 and follow on M1934 were compact “pocket” guns (if you had big pockets) that Mauser produced up until 1939. They were also widely used by both military and police of the era– something few .32s can say today. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

To replace the M1934 in the company’s catalog, Mauser used a design by engineer Alex Seidel dubbed the Hahn Selbstspanner modell C (“self-cocking hammer” i.e. double-action, model C) or simply, the HSc. This blowback-action .32 (8-shot) or .380 (seven shot) with its semi-exposed hammer was Mauser’s answer to Walther’s PP series of compact semi-autos that had been introduced in the 1920s.

The HSc was a thing of beauty designed in the era of 1930s ” Streamline Moderne.” Think: the Rocketeer but German. In the dark, you would almost think it was a Walther PP (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

In production by 1940, the HSc went on to become a classic in its own right, with well over 300,000 examples made by the 1980s — although the gun was later produced in Italy as well.

Our HSc currently up for grabs is a .32ACP model with a seven-shot magazine and a beautiful blued finish. Imported by Interarms most likely in the early 1980s, it has German roll marks. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

(Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)

Moving on from in-house made pistols, Mauser contracted with the Hungarian firm of FEG in the 1990s to produce the M80 and M90 series handguns briefly until they switched gears altogether from steel frames into the alloy era.

In the latter move, the company partnered with SIG to produce the M2, a short-lived German compact with a 3.54-inch rotating barrel offered in .357 Sig, .40 S&W, and .45ACP. These European-made beauties were the end of the line (for now) on Mauser handguns and were only made from 2000 to 2004.

The M2 we have is a .45ACP variant that is a collectible “Friends of the NRA” model that looks unfired and comes with the original presentation box, two magazines, manual and holster.

To see more on Guns.com’s own table of Mausers — both rifle and pistol –– be sure to check them out and head back from time to time and see what else we have on hand. Also, if you have one for sale, we can handle that, too.

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Revamping the K98K 8mm mauser rifle