Pistol also came with holster which is the leather/vinyl type and reserve magazine. The barrel is serialed 74687 and marked eagle/swastika test proof, eagle/WaA140 and eagle/WaA103. No matter how hard I try cannot make out the number. Left slide is marked eagle/swastika test proof and eagle/WaA140 beneath and to right of the 'Browning' Patent Depose' legend and there is eagle/Wa? to the left. Left frame is marked eagle/swastika test proof, eagle/WaA613 and eagle/WaA140, FN in square on trigger guard. Pistol is serial number 74687, 7.65 m/m and bears the three waffenamts used during their production of the 1922 pistol. One of two C&R pistols recently acquired, an interesting German occupation FN Browning 1922. government contracted military and law-enforcement weapons. The FN Manufacturing LLC company is responsible for the development of U.S. They are now located in Columbia, South Carolina in the U.S.A. Repeating Arms Company as well as the Browning Arms Company which was founded by the family of John Moses Browning. The Fabrique Nationale firm is still in business today and is a subsidiary of the Herstal Group. The checkered grip panels are made from Walnut. Although the manual safety lever can be pushed upward and engaged with a notch in the slide which will lock it open for general cleaning. This firearm does not incorporate any type of slide hold open mechanism to inform the operator that the last round has been fired. On the pistol's butt there is a European style heel magazine release. The total length of the pistol is 7.01 inches and it has an unloaded weight of at 25.7 ounces. The barrel length is 4 1/2 inches and contains 6 grooves with a right hand twist. This pistol is striker fired and incorporates a front blade sight and a V notch rear sight that is drift adjustable for windage only. It is fed by a single stack 8 round detachable box magazine. It has been chambered for the 7.65mm Browning(.32 ACP) cartridge. The pistol is made from carbon steel and has a blued finish. This Nazi marked FN Browning model M1922 is a self loading, semi-automatic pistol that utilizes the blowback system of operation.
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