This C96 Conehammer Carbine, Serial No. 13, is in 7.63x25 mm Mauser, has a pinned 50-500-meter graduated rear sight, flat rails and 117⁄8" barrel. The cumbersome carbines saw little use.

Mauser produced some one million of the C96 pistols from 1896 to 1937, but untold numbers—possibly in the millions—were produced in China and Spain.

Movie buffs will recognize the iconic “Broomhandle” Mauser as the template for the BlasTech DL-44 blaster that Han Solo uses in the Star Wars film franchise. But this gun’s real-world ...

The weapon illustrated was a Mauser C96, also known as the "Broom Handle", or "Peter the Painter". It was the fearsome weapon of choice for some of Michael Collins's Squad during the War of ...

A Mauser c96 pistol was worth $8500. Another semi-automatic pistol cost $4250 plus $600 "commission " to the contact man, Zarakas, who referred to himself in a police interview as the "Don ...

The ammo for the 7.63mm Mauser was PPU (Prvi Partizan) 85-grain full metal jacket (FMJ), whilst the 8mm Nambu ammo was a generic (no manufacturing specs listed anywhere on the box) 106-grain FMJ.