In 1911, around serialnumber 220,000, the trigger was modified to have a larger front surface-it wasgiven little flanges on either side, and was grooved in the center. However, the safety was patented by FN on 10 November1906, only a few months after the pistol went on sale. Some say the safety lever was primarilyintended to hold the slide open for field stripping the gun, and only secondarilyserved as a safety.
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This change took placeduring 1909, but was not consistent-new slides with safety levers were installed insome guns with earlier serial numbers, while some guns with later serial numbersreceived older slides with no safety.
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Approximately 150,000 of the first variant guns were manufacturedbetween 19.įor thesecond variant a manual safety lever was added. The early trigger was a narrow,flat piece of machined metal, curved in front to fit the finger, with a smoothsurface. Slide open, either for reloading or for disassembly. Thefirst variant of the FN Browning Model 1906, like Brownings prototype, had nomanual safety and featured only a grip safety. Prototype in 1905, and the first production pistols went on sale in July 1906. The 1906 FN Browning and the 1908 Colt -= the First 'Vest Pocket' Pistols Model 1906 FN Browning Vest PocketThird Variant Browning offered the diminutive pistol to Colts as early as 1904, but they turned him down, so heook the design to FN, who manufactured it as the Pistolet Browning 6.35mm. 25 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).īrownings vest pocket pistol was essentially a miniaturized version of theModel 1903 with a striker toignite the cartridge (in place of the hammer used in the earlier design) and with no manualsafety. The cartridge was introduced into the U.S. The cartridge was introduced commercially in 1906 by FN, and has alwaysīeen referred to in Europe as the 6.35mm Browning. In June of 1904 Browning asked Thomas to manufacture 500 rounds for himo use in testing his prototype. John Browning asked William Morgan Thomas of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company (U.M.C.) todevelop a new cartridge suitable for a small blowback operated vest pocket pistol. In turn, Colts received exclusive rights inNorth and Central America. The agreement wasmodified on 1 July 1912 to allow FN to sell Browningsdesigns inGreat Britain, Ireland, and Canada provided they paid a royalty fee toColts for each gun sold. Markets in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland where Coltshad been licensed to sell Brownings designs. On 7 July 1897 John Moses Browning and Fabrique Nationale (FN)signed an agreement giving FN the right to sell Browning-designedweapons in much of Europe, but specifically excludingthem from The 1906 FN Browning and the 1908 Colt:The First Vest Pocket Pistols
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