Archive for Anthony Vanderlinden

Filling a Niche: FN's Early Side-by-Sides

Best known for producing the John Browning-designed Auto-5 semi-automatic and Superposed over-under shotguns, Belgium’s Fabrique Nationale also made side-by-side double guns. And they had nothing to do with John Browning.

October 01, 2013

Kel-Tec PLR-16 5.56/.223 Semi-Automatic Pistol

This rifle-action pistol provides an accurate option for shooting AR-15 rounds from a handgun.

March 01, 2012

The FN Browning Model 1903

The Model 1903 is the rarest of the military pistols designed by John Browning and produced by Fabrique Nationale.

July 21, 2011

Inside the Pistols of FNH USA

Fabrique Nationale has branched out into polymer handguns.

July 29, 2010

Trench Sweepers

Brownings and Rubys Pistols in the Great War

June 04, 2009

World War I Pistols: Trench Sweepers

Elite Belgian and French “trench sweepers” used Browning-designed FN and Colt pistols in the perilous job of clearing the trenches of World War I battlefields.

May 12, 2009