{"id":8225,"date":"2019-11-17T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/kommer-models-3-and-4-german-browning-copies\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:31:00","slug":"kommer-models-3-and-4-german-browning-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/kommer-models-3-and-4-german-browning-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kommer Models 3 and 4: German Browning Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vO-gNiGd5ZQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Lot 544 (both of them together) in the upcoming RIA December Premier auction.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Emil Kommer was born in 1866, son of a German gunsmith. He took the same profession, and at the age of 23 in 1889 opened his own business making guns. He initially focused on sporting rifles and single-shot pistols, but expanded into semiauto pocket pistols after World War One. His first design came out in 1920, mechanically a copy of the Baby Browning in .25 ACP. The first model had a curved grip frame, which was replaced by the Model 2 which was a closer copy of the Browning, with a straight grip and 6-round magazine. In 1927 he added the Model 3, identical to the Model 2 but with a longer grip and 8-round magazine. In 1936 he added a Model 4, a copy of the FN 1910 in .32 ACP.<\/p>\n<p>All of Kommer\u2019s guns were simplified from their Browning parents, with the grip safeties and magazine safeties removed. They were produced in a single serial number range with just under 20,000 total made by 1940, when production ceased. Kommer died in 1942, and his company ended with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/ https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction This is Lot 544 (both of them together) in the upcoming RIA December Premier auction. Theodore Emil Kommer was born in 1866, son of a German gunsmith. He took the same profession, and at the age of 23 in 1889 opened his own business making guns. He initially focused on sporting rifles and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/kommer-models-3-and-4-german-browning-copies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kommer Models 3 and 4: German Browning Copies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}