A 2.25-inch barrel produced a gun that was just 4.4-inches long overall. A semi-auto blowback action pistol, the Junior was simple in layout with an exposed hammer and rounded spur. Instead of rebooting a legacy design, the new Astra-Colt, which would carry the name Junior in production, was a new gun, even if it used old concepts. With such a record of making affordable, yet quality guns, and with an affinity to produce Colts without a license, the teaming of Astra and Colt to make a Colt-branded pocket gun in Europe for the American market seemed a no-brainer. Finally, they had built and sold another Colt clone (of the 1908 Hammerless) as their Model 200 Firecub since 1926.
1908 hammerless .25 blueprints series#
In the 1930s and 40s they made and sold trainloads of their Model 400, 600, and 900 series pistols to militaries around the globe.
32ACP Victoria model pistols (ironically based on the Colt M1903) during World War I on contract to the French Army and the 9mm Largo Campo Giro for the Spanish Army. The firm of Astra Unceta y Cía dated back to 1908 and really came into its own when they made thousands of their. That’s when Colt decided, if you can’t beat them, join them.
Remaining in production in one form or another until World War II, in the late 1940s Colt was looking to bring these popular (they sold more than 400,000) guns back to the line but just couldn’t make headway against inexpensive European guns from Beretta, Astra, Tanfoglio, Star and others being brought in from Europe. 32ACP dated from when John Browning was working for the company and were svelte mouse guns that could be slipped into a small handbag for the ladies or waistcoat watch pocket for the men. These abbreviated blowback action semi-autos, typically in. Going back to days of when Teddy Roosevelt was in office and movies were silent and lasted about 15 minutes, Colt had a series of small “vest guns” such as the 1903 Pocket Hammer and 1908 Hammerless Model N on the market for the discerning gentleman or lady. Colt bounced back into the Post-WWII mouse gun market with an offering that had some decidedly European origins, yet proved popular enough to keep around for over twenty years.
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