- The Browning FN Model 1910 was a departure for the popular gun manufacturer. Colt apparently didn’t want to produce it, so Browning made the decision to patent and produce the design only in Europe.
- This little model 1910 was brought home from Europe in the 50s. It has no serial numbers. I read once of a contract for Germany for approx 3k of these for secret police but now cannot find reference and it was so long ago I might have wrong country. If anyone knows the story of no serial number FN model 1910 I would greatly appreciate it.
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Microsoft paint online drawing. John Moses Browning probably completed the prototype for his “New Model” pistol in 1908. This can be deduced from the fact that it was patented in Belgium on 20 February 1909, though it is often reported that the prototype was made in 1909 or even 1910. The gun was never patented or manufactured in the U.S. Manufacture of the New Model in 7.65mm by Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Belgium began late in 1912. Manufacture in 9mm Browning Short (.380 caliber) probably began a few months later. FN deliberately delayed release of the new design for nearly three years because sales of the Old Model were still brisk. Once released, the Browning Automatic Pistol, New Model, quickly supplanted the Old Model. However the Old Model (Model 1900) continued in production right up to the beginning of the Great War in 1914, in order to fulfill Belgian military contracts.
Fn Browning Model 1910 Serial Numbers
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FABRIQUE NATIONALE D’ARMES de GUERRE HERSTAL BELGIQUE
BROWNING’S PATENT DEPOSE
FABRIQUE NATIONALE D’ARMES de GUERRE HERSTAL BELGIQUE
BROWNING’S PATENT DEPOSE
FABRIQUE NATIONALE D’ARMES DE GUERRE HERSTAL BELGIQUE
BROWNING’S PATENT DEPOSE
Fn Browning Model 1910 Serial Numbers List
FABRIQUE NATIONALE D’ARMES DE GUERRE HERSTAL BELGIQUE
BROWNING’S PATENT DEPOSE
- Remove the magazine and make sure the chamber is empty.
- Use a barrel bushing key or a spanner wrench to depress the barrel bushing and turn it 90° to unlock it. Be careful because the bushing is under spring pressure.
- Ease the bushing off the front of the slide and remove the recoil spring.
- Draw the slide back to the second detent on the left side and lock it in position with the manual safety lever.
- Turn the barrel counterclockwise (as you face the front of the gun) approximately 90° to unlock its lugs from engagement with the slots in the frame.
- Lower the safety lever and draw the slide and barrel off the frame.
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