FN Model 1910

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FN Model 1910
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FN Model 1910
TypeSemi-automatic pistol
Place of originBelgium
Service history
WarsWorld War I[1]
Chaco War[2]
Spanish Civil War[3]
World War II[4][5][6]
1958 Lebanon crisis
Lebanese Civil War
Production history
DesignerJohn Browning
ManufacturerFabrique Nationale (FN)
Produced1910–1983
VariantsSee Variants
Specifications
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  • Model 1910: c. 590 g
  • Model 1922: c. 700 g (unloaded)
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  • Model 1910: 153 mm
  • Model 1922: 178 mm
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  • Model 1910: 80 mm
  • Model 1922: 113 mm
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ActionBlowback
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  • Model 1910: 6-round (.380) or 7-round (.32) detachable box magazine
  • Model 1922: 8-round (.380) or 9-round (.32) detachable box magazine
SightsNotch and post iron sights

The FN Model 1910 is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic pistol designed by John Browning and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale of Belgium.

Development

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FN Model 1910 of the Gendarmerie of Vaud, on display at Morges castle museum
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Browning M 1910 disassembled

The FN Model 1910, also known as the Browning model 1910, was a departure for Browning. Before, his designs were produced by both FN in Europe and Colt Firearms in the United States. Since Colt did not want to produce it, Browning chose to patent and produce this design in Europe only. Introduced in 1910, this pistol used a novel operating spring location surrounding the barrel. This location became the standard in such future weapons as the Walther PPK and Russian Makarov.

It incorporated the standard Browning striker-firing mechanism and a grip safety along with a magazine safety and an external safety lever (known as the "triple safety") in a compact package. Offered in both .380 ACP (6-round magazine) and .32 ACP (7-round magazine) calibres, it remained in production until 1983. It is possible to switch calibres by changing only the barrel. However, FN never offered packages containing a single pistol with both calibre barrels.

Variants

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FN Model 1922 7.65mm

The FN Model 1922 was also used by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (60,000 Automatski pistolj (Brauning) 9mm M.22) between 1923 and 1930.[7]

Use in assassinations

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Gavrilo Princip's FN M1910, used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo
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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] Numerous previous sources erroneously cited the FN Model 1900 in .32 calibre as being the weapon Princip used.[10] This has led to confusion over the calibre of the pistol actually used.

Paul Doumer, President of France, was assassinated by Russian emigre Paul Gorguloff on 6 May 1932 with a Model 1910 in .32 ACP.[11] The pistol is now in the Musée des Collections Historiques de la Préfecture de Police.[12]

A Model 1910 was also allegedly used to assassinate Huey Long, governor of Louisiana, on 5 September 1935.[13] Physician Carl Weiss, the alleged assassin, bought the FN M1910 now on display Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge, in Europe for $25 in 1930.[14]

Hannie Schaft used a model M1922 during her assassinations as part of the Dutch communist resistance against German occupation of the Netherlands.[15]

Users

Citations

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Small Arms of WWI Primer 058: Belgian FN1910, retrieved 2023-03-14
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Huon, Jean (September 2013). "The Chaco War". Small Arms Review. Vol. 17, no. 3. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."República - Armas de Infantería". www.sbhac.net. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
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  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Japanese handguns of World War II: were they as bad as they looked? Pretty much, says Kokalis, who argues that the greatly increased recent interest in collecting them doesn't mean they still weren't ineffective guns". Archived from the original on December 18, 2022.
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  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scarlata, Paul (1 October 2017). "Yugoslav Part II: World War II small arms: an assortment of small arms from friends and foe alike". Firearms News.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Belfield, Richard (2011). A Brief History of Hitmen and Assassinations. Constable & Robinson, Ltd. p. 241.
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  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chibli Mallat (6 December 2014). Philosophy of Nonviolence: Revolution, Constitutionalism, and Justice beyond the Middle East. Oxford University Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-0-19-939421-0.
  12. ^ Le Musée de la Préfecture de Police (The webpage photo of the pistol misidentifies it as a revolver.)
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Huey Long Death Gun, Speechifying Statue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana".
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.White, Lamar Jr. "Holes in the Story: Huey P. Long, Carl Weiss, and the American Spectacle of Conspiracy". BayouBrief. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hannie Schaft of the Dutch Resistance (The girl with the red hair)". 21 August 2019.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FINNISH ARMY 1918-1945: REVOLVERS & PISTOLS PART 3". www.jaegerplatoon.net. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCollum, Ian (2021). "Other Chinese Copies". Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese Domestic Handguns, 1911 - 1949. Headstamp Publishing. pp. 480–487. ISBN 9781733424639.
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General and cited references

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