Walt Sherrill
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Danoobie said:IMO, FN should feel honored; inasmuch as so much has been borrowed from the original design of the Hi-Power by so many contemporary models. A large segment of the competition is pistols like the CZ75, for instance.
The Hi-Power was/IS a good, original design. Nearly all modern semi-autos use the Browning Locked-Breech Short-Recoil design, but that was a design feature developed by JMB years before he was hired to work on the Hi-Power.
FN was the first gun maker to use double-stack mags in a high-production gun, but it It took another 35-40 years before other gun makers got on that band wagon. (I suspect that change was probably more due to Glock's use of hi-cap mags in the Glock 17 than FN's use of hi-cap mags in the Hi-Power.)
The Hi-Power, internally, has virtually NOTHING in common with the CZ-75 -- except double-stack mags; the 75 just looks a bit like the Hi-Power.
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