Initially, most of these pistols went to the Luftwaffe, or German Air Force. It’s well known that the Germans manufactured the Model 1935 High Power pistol when FN was under its control, but not quite as well known is that the Model 1922 was the most produced FN gun for the Nazis. Many of the company’s senior staff evacuated prior to the German invasion and found refuge with the Allies where they assisted in the Allied war effort. The most interesting part of the gun’s history occurred during WWII when the FN plant in Herstal was overrun by the Germans in May of 1940. Following disengagement of the safety, the slide and barrel can be removed from the front of the pistol. The barrel is then grasped and rotated counterclockwise out of its seat in the frame.
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Then the slide must be retracted and the manual safety engaged in the forward notch in the slide.
Rotate the cap ¼ turn counterclockwise (as viewed from the front), and carefully remove the cap, which is under heavy recoil spring pressure. Then slide the release catch on the extension cap forward. Field stripping involves first removing the magazine and clearing the chamber. There was also a magazine safety that prevented firing the piece when the magazine was removed. The pistol was equipped with a manual safety located at the left rear of the frame, and a grip safety which ensured that the gun could not be fired until gripped securely. The trigger’s face was flanged, wider than its sides. The sights were fixed non-adjustable, with the rear driftable for windage. It had an overall length of 7.01 inches and a barrel length of 4.49 inches. It was a blowback striker-fired design with a magazine capacity of 8 or 9 rounds depending on caliber. Variously known as the Browning 1922 or 10/22, the FN Model 1922, or the Pistole 626(b) as made for the Germans, its specifications are as follows. It was manufactured by FN until the early 1980s, and a modified version was imported by the Browning Firearms Company into the United States in the post-war years. It was selected as a standard military pistol not only with Yugoslavia, but also with Holland, Greece, Finland, Turkey, Romania, France, Denmark, and most notably, Nazi Germany. This model became the European handgun for several decades. What resulted and became officially adopted was the Model 1922, and it was to become an extremely popular gun in many countries around the world. Experimentation was carried out with longer grip frames giving increased ammunition capacity. A number of prototypes were crafted and tested between 19. The solution was a forged extension cap on the slide that could accommodate a longer barrel.
FN really needed more business at that time, and was very interested in satisfying this potential customer.Īccordingly, knowing that the newly-formed Kingdom could not afford new development costs and tooling, FN figured out an economical way to lengthen the slide and barrel of the Model 1910 without materially increasing production costs. However, that gun was considered to be lacking in accuracy, and the Kingdom thought that a similar pistol incorporating a longer barrel would make for more precise shooting. Some selling points were its lower price, and the fact that it could chamber the Serbs’ large stocks of 9mm Short (.380) cartridges. It was used in the Sarajevo assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The Model 1910 was somewhat famous (or notorious) for setting off World War I in 1914. It had no external hammer, and was a popular gun in Europe, quite similar to the Colt-manufactured Model 1903 pocket pistol. This was a blowback semiautomatic design chambered for the. FN’s Model 1910, a John Browning design, was an early contender. Inasmuch as the majority Serbs in the country had a relationship with the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale de Arms de Guerre (FN) as customers dating back to the 1890s, this gunmaking colossus was an obvious choice for help. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia) was formed after World War I, or “the Great War.” After the Balkans Wars and WWI, the country’s stock of rifles and pistols was severely depleted, and it sought a new standard pistol. This is another "sneak peek" at a future article.
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