Becoming the company’s business director, Frommer kept pushing forward with his own gun designs.īy 1910, Frommer had crafted his early masterpiece, the Stop (with some arguing the name alludes to its ability to “stop” a target). While at the company, he came up with some interesting early semi-auto pistols, filing his first of over 100 patents in 1899.
However, during Frommer’s time, FEG was in the business of making small arms for the Honvédség, the Hungarian military. Rudolf Frommer started working with Budapest’s Fegyver- és Gépgyártó Részvénytársaság (FEG, now one of the biggest water heater makers in Europe) in the 1890s. These classic handguns are highly collectible, often brought back from Europe by returning GIs after the World Wars. The Frommer Stop was used by the Hungarian Gendarmerie as the Pisztoly 12M before World War I, then later by the Austro-Hungarian military, continuing to serve into WWII.
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