Specimens examined by western authorities were marked with the date of 1964. The North Korean Type 64 pistol is a copy of the M1900. A Chinese copy of the gun saw usage during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. An Jung-geun used an M1900 in his 1909 assassination of the Japanese Resident-General of Korea, Itō Hirobumi. Contrary to many reports from various sources, an M1900 was not used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on Jthe handgun used by Gavrilo Princip in that notorious incident was instead a FN 1910. Eugen Schauman used an M1900 (serial number unknown) in his 1904 assassination of the Russian Governor-General of Finland at the time, Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov. United States President Theodore Roosevelt owned an mother of pearl-gripped M1900, which he regularly kept on his person and in his bedside drawer. Production ceased only 11 years later, with a total of about 700,000 units having been produced. In 1900, an improved design featuring primarily a shorter barrel was introduced as the M1900. The design was presented to arms manufacturer FN Herstal in 1898, with production commencing the following year (then under the designation Modele 1899).
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