{"id":9308,"date":"2020-03-20T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:18:14","slug":"the-hungarian-frommer-stop-self-loading-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/the-hungarian-frommer-stop-self-loading-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hungarian Frommer Stop self-loading pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"

My colleague Krist\u00f3f Nagy has authored an excellent article on the Frommer Stop pistol for The Hoplite<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rudolf Frommer and his frequently unique firearms designs have been more or less forgotten today, but the impact of his work is still felt in our modern world. Born on 4 August 1868 in Budapest, Frommer was soon to be recognised as an energetic rising star in the Hungarian firearms industry. He did not choose to follow the typical educational path of a firearms designer; instead of becoming an engineer, he studied at the Budapest Academy of Economics before being hired by the\u00a0Hitel Bank\u00a0investment bank. As a portfolio manager, he was tasked with overseeing investments made by his employer. One of these was the bank\u2019s loans to financially stabilise the firearms manufacturer\u00a0Fegyver \u00e9s G\u00e9pgy\u00e1r, the predecessor of the later, state-run F\u00c9G arms factory.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFigure 1.1 <\/strong>The\u00a0Frommer Stop pistol field-stripped (source: Krist\u00f3f Nagy\/ARES).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Frommer Stop was the first self-loading pistol that was entirely designed and mass-produced in Hungary. Fielded in 1912 as the\u00a012 M. pisztoly,\u00a0it became the sole sidearm of all Hungarian armed services over time. But it was far from Rudolf Frommer\u2019s first attempt at a self-loading pistol design. In 1901, Frommer applied for a patent for a handgun that would become the Model 1901. This design featured a fixed magazine inside the pistol grip, and had to be loaded via a charger (\u2018stripper clip\u2019). Only a small pre-production series of 200 pistols was manufactured and, although these were internationally distributed for testing, it never generated enough interest to be adopted by any country. … Finally, in 1911, the long-awaited breakthrough was achieved. Officially adopted as the Model 12 pistol, Frommer\u2019s handgun became a long-standing item amongst Fegyver \u00e9s G\u00e9pgy\u00e1r\u2019s offerings, manufactured in .32 ACP and .380 ACP. Besides governmental contracts, the pistol also saw remarkable success in the civilian market. Especially popular was the shorter version, known as the Frommer Baby.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/strong>: http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/the-hungarian-frommer-stop-self-loading-pistol\/\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My colleague Krist\u00f3f Nagy has authored an excellent article on the Frommer Stop pistol for The Hoplite. Rudolf Frommer and his frequently unique firearms designs have been more or less forgotten today, but the impact of his work is still felt in our modern world. Born on 4 August 1868 in Budapest, Frommer was soon… Read More »The Hungarian Frommer Stop self-loading pistol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":9313,"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":70,"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":[64,89,60,36],"tags":[84,79,81,80,83,70,82,69,85],"class_list":["post-9308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author","category-content","category-text","category-article","tag-frommer-baby","tag-frommer-stop","tag-hungarian-arms","tag-hungary","tag-rudolf-frommer","tag-salw","tag-self-loading-pistol","tag-small-arms","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}