The move took shooting enthusiasts, gun historians and many within the firearm industry by surprise, especially considering the Hi Power’s more than 80 years of production and the many entities that used it since its debut in 1935-including being fielded by both Allied and Axis forces during World War II, as well as later use by the British airborne, the nation’s anti-terrorist group, the SAS and even the OSS, the forerunner of the modern-day CIA.
We look forward to meeting you and gunsmithing for you.In February of 2018, Browning announced it was discontinuing its Hi Power line of pistols. If you loved the services you saw today, check out our online store! You can start shopping by clicking here. Please comment for any content you want to see. Thank you for following along! We post new blogs every Tuesday at 10am PST. We hope you enjoyed this week’s gunsmithing feat. And it would’ve been a better option than the Beretta 92. never adopted it, the Hi-Power is still considered one of the most popular military pistols in history. Ultimately, the Hi-Power was used by over fifty militaries around the world. The Allied forces were able to receive Hi-Powers from a Canadian plant but not until 1944.Īfter the invasion and occupation of Belgium in 1940, the Nazis took control of the FN plan and began producing and using the Hi-Power for themselves.įN resumed production after the war ended and continued until 2018.
When Belgian occupation became apparently imminent, the FN factory sent the plans to the Britain before it fell into German hands. With the beginning of World War II only a few years later, the Hi-Power entered into combat and was used by both Allied and Axis militaries during the war. And though the pistol was designed for the French, they never adopted the Hi-Power. Saive completed the design in 1934, and the Hi-Power was adopted by the Belgian military a year later. The name Hi-Power reflects the capacity of the thirteen round magazine which was considered high for the time. Saive also created a staggered magazine which doubled the capacity of other pistols of the time. FN engineer Dieudonné Saive took over the project, and when the patents for the Colt 1911 expired in 1928, he incorporated some design features including the take down design and the removable barrel bushing. Unfortunately, Browning died in 1926 before it was granted and the design was complete. But because he had sold the rights of the 1911 to Colt, he had to create a completely new pistol working around the 1911 patents.īrowning built two prototypes and filed for the patent in 1923. It was originally designed for the French military who required a simple, compact 9mm service pistol with more than ten rounds capacity. The Browning Hi-Power is a single action pistol based on Browning’s design and finalized by FN engineer Dieudonné Saive. But instead, we rarely see Hi-Powers come through our doors. military had adopted the Hi-Power instead of the Beretta 92, we would seen more of these pistols in our shop for modernization services like optic cuts and trigger jobs.
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