![]() The sights on the baby browning are tiny–it would look funny with big sights. Groups are not too bad either, considering how little this gun it. But it works, goes bang and feeds FMJ reliably. 25 ACP and that round isn’t exactly know to be a powerhouse. The steel frame soaks up the recoil and helps make for a very soft shooting mouse gun. So how does the little fella shoot? Once you get use to how tiny it is and how to get a good grip, it shoots great. Oh, and the US Browning ones have a lot of extra import stamps on them in addition to all the Belgium proof stamps.ĥ rounds nice and slow from 15 feet. The FN pistols have FN on the top of the grips and “baby” on the bottom while the Browning ones only say Browning. The only real difference between the FN branded pistols and the Browning ones is the names. ![]() But it was only from 1953-1968 that FN actually imported these pistols for sale here under the Browning name. No doubt that a FN made Baby Browning or two found it’s way to The States during and after WWII in the footlockers and sea bags of GIs with the gift for collecting. ![]() But they were not available here in the US during the whole production run. The Baby Browning however was FN’s baby from the start. This was the case for the 1908 Vest Pocket and 1905 FN. ![]() Simply put, because there are a few exceptions to this, Colt made the guns for the US market and FN made them for Europe. Many of you will be familiar with how a lot of John Browning’s designs, especially the pistols, were made and marketed. Production and ImportationĪs an import, the gun is covered in stamps. The High Power was another product of these two designers. Did Saive and Browning talk about doing an update to the 1905? We will probably never know, but that would have been a very interesting workshop in which to be a fly on the wall. ![]() It was only a few months after his death that the patents for the Baby Browning were filed. Dieudonné Saive worked as a machinist and assistant for John Browning for a short time before Browning passed. It was inspired by the 1905, it even has the word Browning as part of it’s name, but it was really its own design. To say that the Baby Browning is just an update to the 1905 would be doing the Baby a disservice. They both have a magazine disconnect and the Baby Browning has a cocked hammer indicator on the back of the slide. The Baby Browning also has an easier-to-use manual safety but doesn’t have a slide lock.
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