![]() ![]() Other customers were Turkey (7,550 pieces), Serbia, Denmark and the Netherlands. ![]() During World War One it was the standard pistol of the Belgians. The Model 1903 was taken over by the Belgian Army and a further 95,000 units were produced under license in Sweden. The Browning pistol had a single movement tension with an inner striking piece as well as mechanical and palm safety. Instead, they used a dynamic, dimensioned breech, which is still the basis for high-performance pistols today. The gun was one of the first modern self-loading pistols and despite the relatively powerful cartridges the breech was not locked when firing. The 1903 model used a simple non-return mechanism which could be used at the relatively low performance of the cartridge. The Model 1903 was the Belgian version of a Colt pistol designed by Browning, which was made for the use of a European cartridge called 9-mm Browning Long. ![]()
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