Description
Item Description
Model: Baby
Serial: 399078
Date of Manufacture: 1967
Caliber: 6.35mm (.25 ACP)
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 2"
Optics/Sights: Fixed Front & Rear
Stock/Grips: Checkered Synthetic w/ Browning Logos
Action: Semi-Automatic
Markings: Standard / "MADE IN BELGIUM"
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The 1931 Fabrique Nationale (FN) Baby Browning is a small blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol designed by Belgium-born Dieudonné Saive chambered in .25 ACP (6.35x15 mm). The pistol features a six-round magazine capacity and is a striker-fired, single action, blow back mechanism. The manual thumb operated safety locks the slide in the closed position when engaged using side thumb pressure.
FN's Director of Operations, Dieudonné Saive (who would later design the Browning Hi-Power pistol and the FN FAL rifle) developed the new version during 1926–1927.
His design was smaller, lighter, and incorporated several refinements and improvements to the 1905 Vest Pocket pistol. The grip safety was eliminated and the small safety lever on the left side of the frame was extended under the grip plate toward the trigger, so that the thumb of a right-handed shooter could easily engage and disengage it. This feature enabled the user to manipulate the safety without having to release his grip on the pistol. The frame has a full-length dust guard extending to the end of the slide, and an area behind the trigger was relieved to allow the user to maintain a more substantial grip than with the 1905 version. The new design also introduced an auto-safety mechanism similar to the one utilized on the Colt Vest Pocket of similar vintage, which prevented the pistol from being fired if the magazine was removed. A cocking indicator was also incorporated and is attached to the firing pin spring opposite the firing pin. It protrudes through a pin hole in the rear of the frame when the pistol is loaded.
The new version was marketed under the name Baby – and some of the original thermal hardened plastic grip plates were molded with both the initials "FN" at the top of the grip plate in a circle and the word "Baby" at the bottom of the grip plate under a raised crescent. This particular pistol came to be known worldwide as the Baby Browning pistol.
This gun will ship with the Browning holster (hand crafted in Mexico), the Browning soft zip-up pouch, and the additional magazine pictured above!
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