Colt produced a nearly identical pocket pistol, the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket, which incorporated a small safety lever on the left side of the receiver which locked the trigger. This particular safety mechanism required a significant amount of hand palm pressure to disengage and allow the trigger to release the striker to fire the pistol. The M1905/M1906 Vest Pocket pistol incorporated a grip safety mechanism that constituted the entire rear section of the grip. The shell casing head was spaced on this small rim however, the utilization of the rim in this design complicated the mechanics of the cartridge because the rim would sometimes get hung up on the extractor groove of the cartridge while still in the magazine. The rim of the shell casing had a slightly larger circumference than the base of the cartridge and an extractor groove was cut directly above it. It was designed with a "semi-rimmed" shell casing made of brass. This cartridge was among the first automatic pistol cartridges to be utilized worldwide. The term "ACP" stands for "Automatic Colt Pistol". 25 ACP cartridge became widely available.
This pistol was introduced more or less at the same time the 6.35x16mm.
denoting Vest Pocket), and most confusingly, the "Baby" model. Despite the name FN used for this pistol, it was later marketed as the "M1906", the "V.P.25" (V.P.
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The manual thumb operated safety locks the slide in the closed position when engaged using side thumb pressure.įabrique Nationale (FN) introduced the revolutionary model 1905 in 1905. The pistol features a six round magazine capacity and is a striker-fired, single action, blow back mechanism. The FN Baby Browning is a small blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol designed by Dieudonné Saive based on a design by John Browning (among Browning's last designs) and chambered in. 6-round sealed bottom, flat follower magazine a rounded follower and removable inner and outer bottom plates were incorporated in 1984
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