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The FN Browning Group, formerly known as the Herstal Group, is the parent company of the small arms manufacturers FN Herstal and Browning Arms Company, which market the Browning, Winchester and FN brands. It is headquartered in Liège, Belgium with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, Portugal and France. [3]
1913 FN motorcycle with four-cylinder in-line engine and shaft drive 1931 FN cabriolet FN Browning Hi-Power pistol FN Herstal originated in the small city of Herstal , near Liège . The Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (French for 'National Factory of Weapons of War') was established in 1889 to manufacture 150,000 Mauser Model 89 rifles ...
Mitrailleuse d´Avion Browning - F.N. Calibre 13,2 mm airplane machine gun FN Five-seven pistol with 5.7×28mm cartridges P90 personal defense weapon United States sailor fires an M240B, a U.S. version of the FN MAG, adopted for infantry use in the 1990s Early M249 manufacture of FN Minimi U.S. Marine aiming FN 303 fitted with holographic weapon sight FN 5.7×28mm cartridges as used in P90 ...
Gavrillo Princip's FN M1910, used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo Pistol of Hannie Schaft, FN M1922. An FN M1910, serial number 19074, chambered in .380 ACP [8] was the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the act that precipitated the First World War. [9]
FN Browning may refer to a number of firearms made by the Belgian manufacturer FN Herstal designed or based on designs by American John Browning: Handguns
The FN Model 1905 (from its patent date) or FN Model 1906 (in European countries due to its date of manufacture) was a pistol manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal from 1906 to 1959. [ 1 ] It is virtually identical to the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket , which was based on the same John Browning prototype, and was the inspiration for FN's ...
Serial production started in January 1899, but the M1899 nomenclature postdates it. FN originally called M1899 “modele de présérie”, [12] approximately 14,400 of them were made in total. [13] In 1900, driven by feedback from the Belgian military, FN introduced what was later called M1900, an improved design based on the M1899.
The FN Browning Trombone is a pump-action long takedown rifle designed by John M. Browning in 1919. [1] It was produced by FN Herstal , who made a total of 150,000 from 1922 to 1974. [ 1 ] It was imported into the U.S. by Browning Arms. [ 2 ]