The Frommer/Femaru 37M was the last in the line of handguns designed by Rudolf Frommer. The 37M was a single-action blowback pistol chambered for .380, although it was also purchased by Germany in .32 ACP caliber (and with the addition of a manual thumb safety). It was adopted by the Hungarian military in 1937, replacing the 29M – which was mechanically basically identical but more expensive to produce. The 29M, in turn, was basically a scaled-up Frommer Lilliput.
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Frommer Stop
This week’s slow motion gun is the Frommer Stop, put into production in 1912. The Hungarian designer Rudolf Frommer was responsible for a series of long-recoil pistols, of which the Stop was the last and […]
Submachine Guns
Hungarian KGPF-9: Kalashnikov Genetics in a 9mm SMG
This modern Hungarian submachine gun bears a remarkable similarity to the Hungarian AKM rifle in many aspects, from the pistol grip to many of the manufacturing practices. In fact, the more we did into […]
Semiauto pistol
Mauser M90 DA: Not Mauser and Not a High Power
Our book on Hungarian AKs, “Rifles on the Danube”, is available here: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/danube-book In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mauser firm was not in good shape. It had no new products, and its […]
Hungariae: http://www.hungariae.com/From37.htm
has many photos and info concerning Frommer 37M.
Love the Slo-Mo stuff. Do you have any plans for Slo-Mo on a Luger?
Already done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adOzT_qMq0
Cool. That’s the only Frommer I don’t have.
In my own collection, I still need a 29M, P37(u), Lilliput, Stop, Baby, 1901, and 1906. 🙂
I don’t count the 1901 & 1906. Unobtainium. 🙁
Plus I have 2 1910’s, but only one mag (and it’s in pretty poor shape).
What’s interesting is that there appears to be no application of recoil to the firing hand until the slide’s rearward travel is arrested.
Maybe to brighten up the video somehow (sun reflector pointed at the gun in the moment of firing ) ?