Was the Mauser C96 a full auto pistol?

[Eaglelord17]

Someone really should come up with a business manufacturing new uppers for C96s so people could shoot the worn out ones (which there are tons out there). I imagine you wouldn't even need a large shop to do it, just a couple guys with some lathes, and milling machines. If you really wanted to you could make it so the barrel threads off, and that way you don't have to even manufacture the barrel, just make it so it takes a common thread type.

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[Colonel Enfield]

Someone really should come up with a business manufacturing new uppers for C96s so people could shoot the worn out ones (which there are tons out there). I imagine you wouldn't even need a large shop to do it, just a couple guys with some lathes, and milling machines. If you really wanted to you could make it so the barrel threads off, and that way you don't have to even manufacture the barrel, just make it so it takes a common thread type.

I agree completely and have been saying something like this for years - the C96 is one of the most iconic pistols of all time but they haven't made any new ones since the 1930s and most of the surviving examples are either completely worn out, in a "weird" calibre, or both. It astounds me there's a market for modern reproductions of obscure mid-19th century percussion-cartridge transition model revolvers, but not the C96. As you say, making the uppers for them would suffice and mean people could put the worn out C96s back into commission and keep enjoying them.