In 1889, Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre began manufacturing a Mauser-type rifle for the Belgian Army that was chambered for the rimless 7.65×53 mm rifle cartridge. When Argentina sought to adopt a modern, repeating rifle for its military in the late 1880s, it was at a time when Paul Mauser’s recent designs offered the state-of-the-art. Sometimes the members of this honor guard are from Ejército Argentino (the Argentine Army) and are armed with 19th Century Rolling Block rifles, but sometimes the members of the honor guard are from Armada de la República Argentina (the Argentine Navy) and they carry the rifle that transitioned the country from the 19th Century to the 20th-the Model 1891 Argentine Mauser. Their reverence is such that, on most days, an honor guard is posted at the Memorial to the Fallen at Plaza San Martín. It remains a sore subject in a country that is respectful of the men who survived the war and reverent of the men who did not. Sailors from the Argentine Navy carry the Model 1891 Mauser as part of honor guard duties. Like its Belgian and Turkish predecessors, the Argentine 1891 uses a bolt with front-locking lugs, the distinctive Mauser “wing”-type safety selector, a one-piece wooden stock, and a wood upper handguard that. The 1891 Argentine Mauser is a cock-on-close, striker-fired repeater feeding from an internal five-shot, single-stack box magazine. Also in 1896, Germany experimented with Mausers of various calibers. Sweden adopted a Mauser carbine in 1894 and a Mauser rifle in 1896, both chambered for the 6.5x55 cartridge. in 1982 ended the military junta that brought on the war to begin with-paving the way to a more democratic future-it was nevertheless a blow to national prestige that haunts Argentina to this day. Although the failure to take the Falklands from the U.K. While we know it as the Falklands War, Argentina remembers it alternatively as Guerra del Atlántico Sur or Guerra de las Malvinas. Its blood-red walls and eternal flame remember the 649 Argentine soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who lost their lives during the 74-day-long war in the South Atlantic in 1982. One of the most conspicuous attractions in Plaza San Martín in Buenos Aires is a Memorial to the Fallen. Sporterized 1891 Argentine Mausers like this one remain popular in the U.S.
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