Welcome to these days’s Photograph of the Day! Hitler’s Germany introduced Austria below its keep watch over in 1938 and inherited the Steyr 1912 pistol, which used to be designed in Austria and chambered for a unusual caliber. As a substitute of throwing them away, alternatively, about 60000 of those P12 or M1912 08 weapons have been transformed to take the usual 9mm Parabellum spherical through the Wehrmacht because it had followed this caliber as its same old pistol ammunition. The rechambered fashions have been designated because the 9mm P12(Ö), with (Ö) indicating that they originated from Austria. The pistols retained their authentic Austrian marks however new German proofs and an notorious Eagle/Swastika signal have been additionally added to them. At the left slide, they have been marked “P-08” or simplest “08.” Making those adjustments most commonly concerned converting barrels and adapting balk springs for 9mm ammo. Those remodeled Steyr 1912s served in Germany’s military till the tip of Global Warfare II in 1945. By way of changing surplus fingers into usable facet fingers, the Nazis accomplished two goals –standardization- whilst on the identical time hanging older guns again into provider once more.
“Producer: Steyr
Style: 1911
Kind: Pistol
Gauge: 9 mm para
Barrel: 5 inch spherical
End: blue/straw
Grip: walnut”
Lot 2775: 3 Steyr-Hahn Semi-Computerized Pistols – B) Police Marked Steyr-Hahn Style 1911 Pistol. (n.d.-af). Rock Island Public sale Corporate. {photograph}. Retrieved June 11, 2024, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/1035/2775/three-steyrhahn-semiautomatic-pistols.
