![]() Originally located partly at Ludwigsburg and partly at Christophsthal, the factory was transferred to the former Augustine Cloister in Oberndorf am Neckar, where Andreas Mauser worked as the master gunsmith. ![]() King Frederick I of Württemberg founded the enterprise as Königliche Waffen Schmieden (literally: Royal Weapons Forges) on 31 July 1811. The Gewehr 98 in particular was widely adopted and copied, and it is the foundation of many of today's sporting bolt-action rifles. ![]() In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mauser designs were also exported and licensed to many countries, which adopted them as military and civilian sporting firearms. Their line of bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic pistols was produced beginning in the 1870s for the German armed forces. Mauser, originally the Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik, was a German arms manufacturer. ![]()
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