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Old 03-13-2012, 01:25 PM
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Paladin thanks for posting good stuff like this, I like it!!

The VIS and the Hi-Power were developed and adopted around the same time frame 1929-1935. I wouldn't quite say the GP35 is part parent of the VIS more like a brother from another mother.(where's the smiley face)
There has been some speculation about whether FN/Belgium people came to Poland to assist in the design of the Radom pistol. Recent research has indicated that there was no collaboration on the design by FN. The gun was designed quite independently by Polish designers Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński starting in 1930. In their work, they obviously borrowed heavily from John Browning's M1911 pistol, on which the patents were expiring. The main High Power similarity is the use of a cam rather than a swinging link to unlock the barrel from the slide. At the time the Radom was being designed, the High Power had not yet been introduced, although it was under development by Dieudonne Saive at FN following Browning's untimely death in 1926. The Radom did not use an integrally ramped barrel, which was introduced on the High Power when it was first produced in 1935.

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