What Would Browning Do: FN’s New High Power

Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! It seems like everyone is making a copy of the Browning High Power these days, and FN themselves have jumped into the arena as well. What FN is making isn’t just a clone of the original pistol, though - they have built something largely new, taking inspiration and design cues from the original BHP to create a gun more suited to 2022 than 1935. While the original High Power (or Hi Power, depending on what era you are looking at) is lovingly romanticized by many - and I totally understand why - it has a number of significant shortcomings by today’s standards. It doesn’t feed hollow points well. The triggers are often bad, in part because of the magazine safety. The sights are tiny. The capacity is underwhelming. And most significantly to me, they tend to have bloody hammer bite,