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English: Prototype gas-operated, locked-breech self-loading pistol made by John M. Browning, US patent No. 580923 (applied 14 September 1895, but not granted until 20 April 1897).
This design pistol worked similar to the Colt-Browning machine gun (the “potato digger”).
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Source Edward Clinton Ezell: Handguns of the World. Military Revolvers and Self-Loaders from 1870 to 1945. Stackpole, ISBN 0-88029-618-6, p. 267.
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