It forbade the importation of certain firearms, among them the 1931 Baby Browning - but it didn't forbid the domestic production of these same weapons. This piece of legislation was signed into law by then President Lyndon Johnson. The halt to exports to the US in 1968 was mandated by the Gun Control Act of 1968 - which was precipitated by Robert Kennedy's assassination involving an Iver Johnson manufactured revolver. With the exception of special order nickel-plated units and the above-mentioned versions, all of the 1931 Baby Brownings were finished in chemical hot blue. The Lightweight utilized a 6061 T6 aluminum frame and hexavalent chrome-plated (over electro-less nickel) slide and external detail parts. About 550,000 units were produced, including the hand chiseled engraved "Renaissance" and the "Lightweight" version. Dated 1968 European productionįN manufactured and marketed the Baby Browning from 1931 until 1979, though exports to the US only took place between 1953-1968. Production historyĪ Baby Browning caliber. This particular pistol came to be known worldwide as the Baby Browning pistol and is the pistol shown in the top picture, except for the "Browning" marked grip plates which indicate a more recent (circa 1960 and beyond) production run utilizing nylon impregnated black polymer grip plates. 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. It protrudes through a pin hole in the rear of the frame when the pistol is loaded. A cocking indicator was also incorporated and is attached to the firing pin spring opposite the firing pin. 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. 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.
This feature enabled the user to manipulate the safety without having to release his grip on the 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. His design was smaller, lighter, and incorporated several refinements and improvements to the 1905 Vest Pocket pistol. 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. Its basic design was used as a starting point for a new design. Pressured by the proliferation of unlicensed copies, FN began work in earnest on a successor product to the 1905 Vest Pocket pistol. In addition, this safety lever locked the slide about a half inch back from the front of the pistol to enable easy disassembly. The 1905 Vest Pocket pistol incorporated a grip safety mechanism and also a small safety lever on the left side of the frame, which locked the trigger. The shell casing was headspaced on this small rim however, the utilization of the rim in this design complicated the mechanics of the cartridge because, while still in the magazine, the rim of one cartridge would sometimes get hung up on the extractor groove of the following cartridge (also known as "rim lock"). The rim of the shell casing had a slightly larger circumference than the base of the cartridge and an extractor groove was cut directly above it. It was designed with a semi-rimmed shell casing made of brass. This cartridge was among the first automatic pistol cartridges to be utilized worldwide. The term ACP stands for " Automatic Colt Pistol". 25 ACP cartridge became widely available during this time. denoting Vest Pocket), and most confusingly, the Baby. Despite the name FN used for this pistol, it was later marketed as the FN 1906, the V.P.25 (V.P.
FN 1905 VEST POCKET MAGAZINE LICENSE
FN produced under license from the American arms designer John Browning the revolutionary Model 1905 pocket pistol.
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