The 1906 FN Browning and the 1908 Colt -= the First Model 1906 FN Browning Vest PocketThird Variant Who manufactured it as the Pistolet Browning 6.35mm. Browning offered the diminutive pistol to Colts asĮarly as 1904, but they turned him down, so heook the design to FN, Place of the hammer used in the earlier design) and with no Version of theModel 1903 with a striker toignite the cartridge (in 25īrownings vest pocket pistol was essentially a miniaturized The cartridge was introduced commercially in 1906 by FN,īeen referred to in Europe as the 6.35mm Browning. Thomas to manufacture 500 rounds for himo use in testing his Small blowback operated vest pocket pistol. John Browning asked William Morgan Thomas of the Union MetallicĬartridge Company (U.M.C.) todevelop a new cartridge suitable for a InGreat Britain, Ireland, and Canada provided they paid a royaltyįee toColts for each gun sold. Wasmodified on 1 July 1912 to allow FN to sell Browningsdesigns Markets in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland whereĬoltshad been licensed to sell Brownings designs. (FN)signed an agreement giving FN the right to sellīrowning-designedweapons in much of Europe, but specifically On 7 July 1897 John Moses Browning and Fabrique Nationale The 1906 FN Browning and the 1908 Colt:The First Vest Pocket
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