The 1910 model follows the Savage Automatic Pistol in placing the recoil spring around the barrel, rather than over the barrel as in the 1900 model. Pollard notes that the New Model is “.smaller and handier, but has a much more appreciable recoil.”īoth guns are blowback operated. Predecessor, while retaining the remarkable reliability and accuracy of the Old Model. The New Model was lighter and less complicated than its

Pistol, New Model,” but this gradually gave way to “Browning Automatic Pistol, Model 1910,” and after World War II to “Browning Automatic Pistol, Model 10.” FN’s instruction manuals in the 1920’s continued to refer to the gun as the “Browning Automatic “Browning” was virtually synonymous with “automatic pistol” in much of Europe. The year model designations 19 apparently did not come into use until sometime after World War I, though the guns were both always known as the Browning Automatic Pistol. 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. Once released, the Browning Automatic Pistol, New Model, quickly supplanted the Old Model. FN deliberately delayed release of the new design for nearly three years because sales of the Old Model were stillīrisk. Manufacture in 9mm Browning Short (.380 caliber) probably began a few months later. Manufacture of the New Model in 7.65mm by Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Belgium began The gun was never patented or manufactured in the U.S. Though it is often reported that the prototype was made in 1909 or even 1910. This can be deduced from the fact that it was patented in Belgium on 20 February 1909, John Moses Browning probably completed the prototype for his “New Model” pistol in 1908.

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