This innovative feature, first introduced by Browning, would eventually be incorporated in several other designs like the PPK and Makarov. By 1908, he had worked up an advanced, new design that utilized the Model 1900’s trigger and further streamlined the Model 1903’s profile by wrapping the mainspring around the gun’s barrel. With successful pistols in production in two calibers in Europe and North America, Browning then moved on to the next evolution of his unique engineering vision. That pistol was eventually also offered in Browning’s new, more powerful. 32 ACP (7.65 mm), which was also commonly referred to as the “pocket hammerless” despite the fact that it used an internal hammer.
Three years later, Colt began producing his next self-loading pistol: The Model 1903 in. Although the Model 1900 was compact, reliable and affordable, to Browning there was still room for improvement and he therefore continued to work toward a more perfect design. Manufactured in Herstal, Belgium near Liège by Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre as the Model 1900, it introduced the world to the magazine-fed, slide-operated sidearm and in many ways set a standard that continues to define the modern service pistol today. The legendary gun designer John Moses Browning created the world’s first commercially successful, semi-automatic handgun just before the turn of the 20th century. While certain features changed by manufacturer or year of release, the general lines of John Moses Browning’s design are certainly unmistakable.
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