It has been chambered for the 7.65mm Browning(.32 ACP) cartridge.It is fed by a single stack 8 round detachable box magazine.This pistol is striker fired and incorporates a front blade sight and a V notch rear sight that is drift adjustable for windage only.The barrel length is 4 12 inches and contains 6 grooves with a right hand twist.
![]() The total length of the pistol is 7.01 inches and it has an unloaded weight of at 25.7 ounces. On the pistols butt there is a European style heel magazine release. This firearm does not incorporate any type of slide hold open mechanism to inform the operator that the last round has been fired. Fn Browning 1922 S Manual Safety LeverAlthough the manual safety lever can be pushed upward and engaged with a notch in the slide which will lock it open for general cleaning. Eleven years later, FN entered into a long lasting relationship with the firearms designer John Moses Browning. In 1922, Browning modified the M1910 pistol to suit the requirements of the military of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes which today is known as Yugoslavia after being renamed in 1929. Browning and the FN Bureau dEtudes or Research and Development Office took the M1910 and lengthened the slide by adding a removable frontal portion, added a lanyard ring, they also lengthened the barrel and elongated the grip frame which gave the magazine more capacity. This newly designed pistol would come to be known as the FN M1922 and was just what the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had wanted and on February 28, 1923 they ordered 60,000 pistols. This also gives the M1922 the distinction of being developed solely at the request of a customer rather then being targeted for a particular market. In 1940, Nazi Germany occupied Belgium and took over production of the M1922 at the FN plant. Depending on the caliber, these pistols were designated as either the Pistole 626(b) for the 7.65mm version or Pistole 641(b) for the 9mm Short version. The pistol has also been called the 191022 or 1022 which is short for 19101922. An interesting note is that the Browning model M1922 was produced in larger numbers than any other firearm at the Fabrique Nationale plant during the Nazi occupation of Belgium. In 1944, Belgium was liberated by the Allies and production of the M1922 continued with most of these post war pistols going to fill military and government contracts. ![]() The model M1922 pistol was very popular with the German officers and many took this pistol as their official sidearm. The primary user however of the M1922, was the German Luftwaffe(air force). The M1922 pistols that were accepted by the German military will have one of three Waffenamt stampings or Weapons Office inspectors stamps. These would be WaA 103, WaA 140, andor WaA 613 which indicate the following. The Waffenamt stamping, WaA140 on the pistol featured on this page was used from the 1941 to the liberation of Belgium in 1944 with approximately 325,000 of these 7.65mm pistols being produced. Fn Browning 1922 S Serial Numbers For TheseFn Browning 1922 S Serial Numbers ForThe serial numbers for these pistols started around the 67,000 to 68,000 range and proceeded to approximately serial number 155,000.
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