Editing Machine pistol (section)

=== 1920s–1930s ===
[[File:Mauser M712.png|thumb|left|Mauser Schnellfeuer machine pistol]]

The [[Mauser C96]] was introduced in 1896, it being one of the first commercially successful and practical semi-automatic pistols. During World War I, the Germans experimented with machine pistols by converting both [[7.63×25mm Mauser|7.63mm Mauser]] and 9&nbsp;mm Parabellum semi-automatic C96 pistols to full-auto. In the late 1920s, Spanish gunmakers expanded upon this idea by introducing [[select fire]] copies of the C96 with 20-round detachable magazines. In the early 1930s, Mauser engineers finally followed suit, and introduced the [[Mauser C96#M1932/M712 Schnellfeuer|Model 1932 or Model 712 ''Schnellfeuer'']] variant, which also included 20 round detachable magazines and a select fire mechanism allowing for fully automatic fire at a rate of 1,000 RPM.