The Hi Power was the brainchild of American small arms legend John Moses Browning, a prolific inventor who also created the M2 .50 caliber machine gun, still in use with U.S. military forces today.

At this time the Canadian Forces has 11,896 Browning handguns in its inventory, National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier told this newspaper. Of those, 1,323 are non-functioning. Article content ...

The Browning Hi Power handgun was designed by Browning in the late 1920s in response to a competition for the new French Army pistol, which was dubbed the Grande Puissance (“high power”) 35.

The Canadian military plans to destroy 11,000 of its Second World War-era pistols by the end of this year. ... It replaces the Browning Hi-Power pistol that has been used by the Canadian Forces ...

The Browning Hi Power handgun was designed by Browning in the late 1920s in response to a competition for the new French Army pistol, which was dubbed the Grande Puissance (“high power”) 35.

Meanwhile, Dieudonné Saive fled Belgium and eventually settled in Toronto, Canada, helping the John Inglis Co. produce Hi Powers there for Nationalist Chinese, British, Canadian and Greek forces.

High Power or Hi-Power: If the gun is marked “Fabrique Nationale,” it is a High Power. If the gun is marked “Browning Arms Company,” than it is a Hi-Power.

The Browning Hi-Power pistols have been used by a wide variety of military and law enforcement units internationally. During WWII, both the Allies and the Axis powers used these pistols.

The Hi-Power — known as the Browning Hi-Power, the Browning Automatic Pistol, the Grande Puissance, P-35, Pistole 640(b), and so many other names — is arguably the most widely-used military ...

The new handgun replaces the Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol. ... Canadian Special Forces and DND conducted an investigation into a misfire incident involving the P320 and Canada's elite ...

Deal with Victoria, B.C. based armourer will replace Canada's ancient Browning Hi-Power pistols with 7,000 new, modular Sig Sauer P320 handguns — with an option for 9,500 more You can save this ...