The shell gun, also known as the box gun in China, is officially called the Mauser Military Pistol. The Mauser factory obtained the patent on December 11, 1895, and officially produced it the following year. Because its holster is a wooden box, it is also called a box gun in China. There is a fully automatic type called a speed machine, which the Mauser factory calls the M712 rapid-fire type (Schnellfeuer), which was mass-produced in May 1931. The word "speed machine" can often be seen in many novels in my country. Wang Qiang, one of the railway guerrillas who was my favorite when I was a child, was carrying two "speed machines" and beating the shit out of the Japanese. Another lesser-known name for the shell gun is the Zilaide pistol. Many people think that only the rapid-fire type is called Zilaide. This is incorrect. In fact, Zilaide has always been the more formal generic name for this type of pistol in China.
The earliest shell gun was designed by the three Fidel brothers (Fidel, Friedrich, and Josef Feederle) of the Mauser Arsenal in Germany, who used their spare time to chat at work. However, the last person to apply for a patent for the gun was the owner of the Mauser Arsenal, so the shell gun is also called a Mauser pistol. In 1896, Mauser Arsenal hoped to produce shell guns for the German army. However, until the Mauser factory stopped producing the shell gun in 1939, no country in the world adopted the shell gun as the standard weapon of the army. During these decades, the Mauser factory is estimated to have produced approximately one million rifles of various types. The number of counterfeit products produced in other countries is several times that. The military of various countries do not use the shell gun not because the quality of the gun is not good, but because the price is too high, and the gun is too large to be used as a pistol by the European army, and the power is too small to be used as a rifle. If it doesn’t go down, it’s a dilemma. As the saying goes, the flaws do not hide the flaws, but the shell gun is really loved by users in China. In the first half of the 20th century, China was in dire straits. Warlords of various factions were fighting against each other and urgently needed weapons to fight. At that time, Japan controlled the export of arms to China from the West. , but the shell gun as a pistol is not included in this list, so the shell gun has become the first choice for armed forces of various factions. In China's anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and anti-aggression struggles, the people's armed forces also seized a large number of enemy weapons to arm themselves. Therefore, the people's army was also equipped with a large number of such rifles. Zhu De, the commander-in-chief of the uprising army who fired the first shot of the Nanchang Uprising, used one. A shell gun. During its forty-year history of mass production, the German shell gun has undergone almost no internal changes, so it can be said that the original design is almost perfect and there is nothing to improve. There are basically no tools needed to dismantle a shell gun. As long as there is a bullet from the shell gun, the gun can be disassembled. The box gun is a cute and ugly standard, almost romantic.