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Artillery Hi-Power?

One thing that strikes me as odd is in the Military Use section. While Germany did use captured Hi-Power pistols during WWII, I've NEVER heard of a full auto version that wasn't some South American modification. It just seems like a bit of a stretch to include without any sources. --Grimwol (talk) 18:16, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, some GP35's with an adjustable rear sight and detachable stock were produced during WW II by John Inglis for Nationalist China where such weapons were popular with some of its officers, although more as a status symbol rather than for actual military usefulness. I don't recall them being fully-automatic modifications though, but I may be wrong.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.53.190 (talk) 11:42, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I managed to come across a forum claiming that in a December 2001 issue of Handguns magazine, there is a review of a Inglis Hi-Power Mk I, which happened to be a select-fire version for a Chinese contract. This still doesn't help with the claim of Germans using select-fire Hi-Powers, but seeing as they did have the M712 and Astra 900, it could be plausible. Still, without any sources, I think the full-auto claim is unwarranted. Grimwol (talk) 17:55, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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External Extractor

This was mentioned a few years back, but there are still several comments indicating that the Hi-Power utilizes a 'more reliable' external extractor, all of which are unsourced unless I am mistaken. The lack of sources is an obvious problem, but the fact that I can easily and readily find credible sources that back either viewpoint, that this is an improvement or not an improvement, is an altogether different problem. This really needs to be changed to reflect a neutral point-of-view.Syr74 (talk) 08:35, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dispersion Data

In the Section on the Technical Specifications of the Mk I, it says:

Dispersion (firing 10 shots with rest)

at 15 metres: 95 mm (height 50 mm, width 45 mm)
at 30 metres: 200 mm (height 105 mm, width 95 mm)
at 50 metres: 320 mm (height 170 mm, width 150 mm)

There isn't (at least I cannot see it) any reference given to where these data come from and how they were measured. Taken in themselves, these data don't make a lot of sense to me, since the aggregated data are merely sums of the height and width data. Assuming that the height and width data show the distance from the centre point of aim to the outmost of the ten shots, the linear measure to that outmost shot from the centre point would be - after the Pythagorean theorem:

at 15 metres ≈ 67mm
at 30 metres ≈ 141mm
at 50 metres ≈ 226mm

and maybe even less, if the extremes from height and width came from different shots.

Could anyone clarify that?

Name given to the 1935 Belgian Browning 9mm pistol

I would like the reasonably verified, earliest known date of the name Hi Power being applied to this pistol. Specifically was it used before the German invasion and operation of the FN factory in Liege.

thanks!

D Treadwell Texas dtread44@gmail.com 69.58.154.161 (talk) 02:03, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Production line moved to Canada

Incorrect. Belgian engineers assisted the Inglis firm with reverse engineering and manufacturing; the tooling remained at FN in German-occupied Belgium. 2600:8805:3804:F500:41D0:B4F:124E:1C28 (talk) 01:47, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]