

That the pawn shop personnel thought the gun was a cheap knockoff. I picked up a brochure from PSA Incorporated at the Tulsa gun show, and only a few weeks later ran across the PSP-25 pictured here at a local pawn shop. Browning’s FN Pocket Pistols, which gives a detailed history of the gun, including some information on the Betz has written an excellent article entitled John M. Product was smaller, lighter, and cheaper to manufacture than its predecessor, but incorporated enough of John M.īrowning’s patents to be legitimately called the “Baby Browning.” Col. Waffenfabrik’s Model 9, which appeared in 1921, and to my knowledge is still the smallest. I suspect FN needed something that could compete with Carl Walther The Browning Vest Pocket pistol of 1905/1906. The “Le Bébé” pistol was designed in the late 1920’s by FN’s chief designer of the era, Dieudonne Saive, as a replacement for You work the action and you know immediately it is a well made weapon. You hold it in your hand and it “feels” right. Even the low-end Traditional model is beautifully finished both inside and out.
Fn 1905 vest pocket serial number 807320 license#
It is no small thing for a company with Fabrique Nationale’s reputationįor quality manufacture to license another entity to manufacture one of their products, but in the case of Precision Small Parts (PSP), now known as Precision Small Arms (PSA), quality of License from Fabrique Nationale because the FN “Le Bébé” has been banned from import into the U.S. The PSP-25 is simply a Baby Browning made in the U.S.
