The Mauser Broomhandle, or “Peter the Painter” was ... Commandant Byrne, who was a teenager at the time, carried both a 9mm Painter and a short .455 Webley revolver. He used his Mauser in ...

Mauser's exotic C96 is often called the Broomhandle because of the distinctively shape of the butt. It is a very strong, recoil-operated auto that is laid out a lot differently that most other autos.

Early 9mm carbines were simply pistols with detachable stocks and appeared on Luger vaariants, C96 Mauser broomhandle pistols, and even early World War II pistols like the Polish Radom VIS P35. That ...