10,500 Canadian Brownings headed to Ukraine

[Donny Fenn1]

On the other hand: taxpayers back in the day bought them to help defend the free world against Russians ... and, in a surprise move, after all these years, that's how they're going to be used.

Made to defend the free world against the Nazis.

 

[Eaglelord17]

The browning hi-power maybe a little obsolescence but it is by no means obsolete. Most modern designs are basically a modernized version of it (all based around the same locking mechanism).

There was war stocks, not to mention every units stock was different. I have seen clapped out ones and I have seem pretty tight ones all in the same vault.

It might not be the best pistol in the world but it is certainly a lot better than no pistol and I am sure many Ukrainians will be happy to have them as they are a fairly reliable design.

 

[purple]

Dad's pistol from WW2 was good enough for me, my son and my grandson. Hopefully it will work for the Ukrainians. A pistol tends to be a badge of office and can be used to help you find a rifle.

 

[boxhitch]

The way I heard it, most (if not all) of the pistols were discovered in a warehouse and are in unissued and therefore, unfired condition. Bear in mind that Inglis made around 152,000 pistols! Is it truly inconceivable that 11,000 were warehoused and forgotten? I'd love to see them on the collector market here though we know the Liberals would never allow that. Just like the 750 Lee Enfield .22 training rifles in the transit boxes that went under military guard to Stelco into the furnaces. As if a 4', 10 lb. single shot .22 rifle would ever be the criminal's firearm of choice.

Found while searching for missing vaccines, under the deck at the new cottage

 

[gewehr76]

At least if this is true, these pistols not going to the smelter. may be in 30-50 years they come back to Canada. God willing.

 

[nowarningshot]

Because Kanadian people are trash, embarrassing, need to be replaced. On a positive point, by the time this government figures out how to pad their bank accounts doing this, one of Trulanders kids will be PM

 

[Mike Webb]

Have heard first hand from former Canadian weapons tech that there are ww2 built hi powers in Canadian inventory that are new in the box.

 

[trilobite]

Made to defend the free world against the Nazis.

Well, them too.

 

[Can-down]

Have heard first hand from former Canadian weapons tech that there are ww2 built hi powers in Canadian inventory that are new in the box.

What do you think one of those would be worth to a collector? Possibly quite a bit more then a generic modern duty pistol.

 

[woodchopper]

What do you think one of those would be worth to a collector? Possibly quite a bit more then a generic modern duty pistol.

for a NOS / war stock unissued BHp..... $1200-$1400 would be my guess

I own a BHp that is in excellent shape and still has about 1/3 of its factory sticker intact, I've had it now for perhaps 2 decades and have fired perhaps 100rds

 

[JP]

My friend Dennis from Empire Arms in Florida, just sold a chinese contract one with wooden shoulder-stock / holster in VG condition for $1,850.00 US

 

[canuck]

for a NOS / war stock unissued BHp..... $1200-$1400 would be my guess

I think you're estimate is light, mediocre Inglis HPs were selling for near that before the great turdban
NOS would be close to 2K IMO

 

[CeeZer]

Sad, about 80 years ago Canada was helping fighting them, now sponsoring...

 

[Bartok5]

Have heard first hand from former Canadian weapons tech that there are ww2 built hi powers in Canadian inventory that are new in the box.

I had an unissued, New Old Stock Hi Power issued to me in the standard gray cardboard box for my 2008 deployment to Afghanistan. It functioned fine once I broke it in....

 

[hollowedpoint]

Oh guys it an old war horse like the 1911! I’m sure it will do fine. It’s not like a billion dollar missile system. But hey if it works it works…right?

 

[enefgee]

Oh guys it an old war horse like the 1911! I’m sure it will do fine. It’s not like a billion dollar missile system. But hey if it works it works…right?

To be honest, at least we have the Hi Powers, not like the AA missile system we keep telling Ukraine is "on its way". Anyway, they can't be in worse condition than the few Leos we shipped them.

 

[nowarningshot]

The browning hi-power maybe a little obsolescence but it is by no means obsolete. Most modern designs are basically a modernized version of it (all based around the same locking mechanism).

There was war stocks, not to mention every units stock was different. I have seen clapped out ones and I have seem pretty tight ones all in the same vault.

It might not be the best pistol in the world but it is certainly a lot better than no pistol and I am sure many Ukrainians will be happy to have them as they are a fairly reliable design.

You actually believe, they make it to Ukraine, to the front line troops. It's simply a method to get them off the books in a politically correct and unquestionable way. Once their off the books, there are so many things that can happen to them. Some might actually make it to Ukraine.

 

[geologist]

Better to Ukraine than the smelter.

If you are out of rifle ammunition the pistol is better than your knife or your fists.

 

[LawrenceN]

As an ex MP, that was my issue service weapon with the SMG as #2 though I had to qualify on them as well as the C1A1 (FAVOURITE!!). I qualified as 1st. class shot and marksman and ended up on the CFB Toronto pistol team. The HP's were difficult to tune due to the sear tripping lever arrangement, but if you took it all apart and carefully stoned the bearing surfaces on a hard Arkansas stone it would lighten and smooth out the trigger pull.

 

[can14]

Canada should never have destroyed the FN ‘s, Sterling’s etc
Look at the World we live in now
Making 7.62 and 9mm is easier than getting guns when you need them