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Browning 1911 .45

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Looking at the Browning website I don't see one. It seems odd to me that the company of The Creator of the 1911 no longer makes one.

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The original was designed by JMB for Colt.

 

Browning Firearms (now owned by FN) wasn't created until 1927, 16 years after the adoption of the 1911.

Are you perhaps thinking of the Browning Hi-Power, which was the firearm John Browning made for Fabrique Nationale after leaving Colt?

so to go into more depth. when John Moses Browning left Colt and went to work for FN/H, Colt still owned the patents to the 1911, which he designed but didn't own the work... so due to Colt holding the patents, he had to design an entirely new gun that operated and looked different enough to 'pass muster' legally... but had the spirit of the 1911, which was the Hi-Power... which was a 9mm firearm with twice the capacity of a 1911 , thus the "Hi-Power" designation. 

 

 

BTW, old school Belgian Hi-Powers are some of the finest firearms you could ever hope to hold, shoot, or own.  I would *LOVE* a classic Belgian made Hi Power.

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I see. I had assumed that JMB created/founded the Browning firearms company.

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Well now don't I look like an idiot.

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