If one forgets this little detail he may be courting disaster. Firstly, when one pulls the slide back in the normal manner to transfer a cartridge from the magazine to the barrel chamber, the safety member is pushed in (as one grips the pistol) and it remains there unless one releases it by pushing in the release button. This safety device is certainly not one to be recommended because it is a very dangerous one. This causes the safety to spring out, and when in this pisition it must be depressed before the trigger can be pulled. To apply the safety, one must push in a little button which is located on the left side of the grip frame, below the rear end of the slide. When the grip safety is in the „in' position the gun can be fired by pulling the trigger, but when it is in the „out' position pulling the trigger alone, without depressing the safety, will not cause the gun to fire. This pistol has but one safety and this is a grip safety which operates in an unconventional manner. The barrel is pivoted at the rear end and can be removed by turning it at right angles, in which position it can be slid out. To disassemble, the magazine is first removed and the slide is pulled back and then allowed to move forward slowly until it comes into a position where it can easily be lifted off. 1910, but internally it is quite different (Fig.

The pistol has an outward appearance similar to the F.N. The first prototypes are thought to have been made in Belgium in 191516. The pistol was designed by Heinrich Ortgies, said to have been a German by birth but who was a resident of Liege, Belgium, until about the close of World War I. The Ortgies pistols are unique in design, although inevitably they have some features in common with other automatic pistols.

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