While the original needle gun used a pin that pierced the base of the cartridge to ignite the primer in the middle, Mauser soon developed a needle that ignited the charge at the base, a superior design. After Paul developed a new turning bolt design Wilhelm was impressed enough to rejoin the business and succeeded in obtaining the financing to purchase machinery and continue development. Paul and Wilhelm had separated due to differences during this time. During his entire career he had a unique ability to produce both the gun and the ammunition for it. Paul's first invention was a cannon and its ammunition. Paul was the engineer and designer but Wilhelm took on the task of manager for their interests with the Oberndorf factory. Paul engaged his older brother Wilhelm in working on a new gun system in their spare time after work. By December he had so impressed his superiors that he was placed on inactive military service and assigned to the royal factory at Oberndorf. Peter Paul was conscripted in as an artilleryman at the Ludwigsburg arsenal, where he worked as a gunsmith. Another brother, Franz Mauser, went to America in with his sister and worked at E. His brother Wilhelm was four years older. His older brother Wilhelm assumed many of his father's duties as he became ill. Originally located partly at Ludwigsburg and partly in Christophsthal, the factory was transferred to Oberndorf in the former Augustine Cloister.ДЄndreas Mauser was the master gunsmith there. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mauser designs were also exported and licensed to many countries which adopted them as military and civilian sporting firearms. Their line of bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic pistols has been produced since the s for the German armed forces.

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