First Striker Fired Pistol ever?

[ScarLata]

I got the following online statement:

Striker Fired Pistol design isn’t new. Roth Steyr had the Model 1907 and Browning the 1910. Both are striker fired. If you want to dig really deep, there is the Borchardt striker fired pistol from 1893.

What do you think?

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Cool. Neat history lesson.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

My favorite OLDER striker-fired handgun is the Luger. Lots of striker-fired rifles...

 

[dogmush]

I'll play.

I'm no expert but from the exploded drawings I can find online the Schönberger-Laumann 1892 appears to be striker fired.

It's certainly got a long striker-esque thing in it's bolt that seems to travel linearly to strike the primer.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

If you look at John M. Browning's original (patent) drawings for the BHP (1927), you'll see that he intended it to be striker-fired, too. That was later changed.

Here's a link: http://www.google.com/patents/US1618510?dq=patent+1618510#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Lucky Derby]

Lots of Colts (JMB designed) from the first decade of the 1900s are striker fired.

 

[Molasses]

Lots of Colts (JMB designed) from the first decade of the 1900s are striker fired.

Which ones would those be?
The Vest Pocket .25? Yes, it's striker fired. The rest of Colt's early so-called "hammerless" models...not so much. A shrouded hammer is still a hammer.

 

[Jim K]

The FN Browning Model 1900 is striker fired and a very ingenious system it is, using a single spring to power the striker and also to serve as the recoil spring.

Several of the early repeating pistols were striker fired, but I think the Borchardt was the first self-loading pistol of any type to see quantity production. I don't know how many Schönberger-Laumann pistols were made, but I can't imagine there were many.

Jim