After Browning's death, a man named Dieudonne Saive, working for FN, fully developed and brought the Hi-Power to production. In fact, Browning had to work around his own patents on the 1911 pistol ...

The Browning Hi Power handgun was designed by Browning in the late 1920s in response to a competition for the new French Army pistol, which was dubbed the Grande Puissance (“high power”) 35.

However, Browning passed away in 1926 still awaiting the pistol’s patent, which was not issued until the next year. Despite Browning’s and FN’s efforts, the Model 27 Grande Rendement was ...

Female workers Agnes Apostle of Dauphin, Manitoba and Joyce Horne of Toronto, Ontario conduct a final assembly of a 9mm. semi-automatic Browning Hi-Power pistols destined for China at the John ...

It is .002” larger than the Browning/FN sear pin. The serial number is on the side of the frame so we can make our Pathfinder mini Hi Power out of these.

Although Browning is today best known for the Colt 1911A1 handgun and the M2 “Ma Deuce” heavy machine gun, his final pistol design was decades ahead of the competition. The Browning Hi Power ...

The Hi Power was the brainchild of American small arms legend John Moses Browning, a prolific inventor who also created the M2 .50 caliber machine gun, still in use with U.S. military forces today.