![]() The full frontpage is about this galaevent… That was worldnews in those day’s! This is a copy of the newpaper “la meuse” dated Feb 1st 1914. Dark days were coming and the original one millionth handgun disapeared from the scene in the fog of war… A few months later world war one started. ![]() John received one, his son got one, the King and a few others. ![]() In order to give the most important VIP’s, FN created several small 1905 pistols engraved with “un million”. A small problem arised since there was only on millionth handgun and there were several people wanting something… 500 VIP’s were invited, ministers, ambassdors, clients and even the Belgian King who sended an deputé. On January 31th 1914, the event was held at Herstal. They wanted to express there apreciation for Mr Browning and they wanted to do it “king size” In order to celebrate this achievement, the FN plant organised a gigantic gala event. In 1912 FN achieved a total production of one million handguns. Several pistols were simultanious in production. ![]() The are on display in the JMB museum in Oghden USA. For all these milepoles a commemorative pistol was engraved. Some small modifications were done and the model FN 1900 was an instant succes.īy august 1904 the first 100.000 were made. The FN one millionth handgun and John Moses BrowningĪs you all know, JM Browning worked together with Fabrique National Herstal since 1897.īy 1899 the first pistols came into production in Belgium. Si il-y-a quelqun qui sais le faire, vas-y C'est trop difficile a traduire pour moi.
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