Word: mausers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dictator only 31 years old, whom elder statesmen held uneasily and attentively in mind last week. One enters, climbs a neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
...sultry August afternoon, the denizens of Mexico City were startled by the clatter of horses and the tramp, tramp, tramp of feet. With curious eyes, they watched detachments of police, armed with shining Mauser rifles, surround Congressional Hall...
...police carried out their raids and discovered a caps for hand grenades, ammunition for Mauser revolvers and the revolvers for the ammunition, besides many damning revolutionary documents...
...each of which forms a barrel. Then there are types of the revolver which were used during the Civil War and resemble the modern revolver. Finally there is a case containing modern small arms used in present-day warfare. They are single and double action revolvers and Colt and Mauser automatic pistols...