Why can't I find any modern commercial Browning or FN Hi-Powers, new or used?

[bssaguy]

The only reason the Canadian military is replacing them is that the existing stock are worn out... they can't cherry pick enough working parts to make the required numbers up.

The ones I've seen are beyond redemption.

That being said I have a commercial one in brushed nickel that is just too pretty.

 

[geologist]

here are a few of mine, along with the double-action and double-action-only variants that followed (with minimal commercial success). Note that fn continued to manufacture bhps and the bda-9 well into the 1970s, if not considerably later. I am no fn/browning historian, so cannot say precisely when fabrique nationale ceased production. I do know that all of the "modern" bhp mk iiis were manufactered in belgium and assembled in portugal, right up to the final production guns....

Canadian inglis bhp mk i*:

browning mk ii manufactured by fabrique nationale belgique:

browning mk iii manufactured by fabrique nationale herstal / browning sa, belgium

browning double-action 9mm (bda-9) manufactured by fabrique nationale herstal belgique

browning arms company, morgan utah & montreal, pq-manufactured browning dual-action (bda) switches from double-action to double-action-only "police" mode:

w o w!

 

[OCanada]

There have been a few Brownings on the auctions recently. Look at Icollector and scan the auctions in Canada.

You just have to remember all the add on purchase fees, shipping and taxes.

P.

 

[Shooting Centre]

We have a few used ones here:



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