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Item Name: FS Collectors-Belgium Baby Browning Lightweight NICKEL .25
Location: Little Hollywood-Covington
Zip Code: 30014
Item is for: Sale Only
Sale Price: 650
Caliber: .25
Willing to Ship: No
Bill of Sale Required?: No but must be over 21 years old, current GA resident and legally allowed to own a firearm. I want to see a current GA Drivers License and prefer to peak at a carry permit.
Item Description: Another offered from my "mouse gun collection". Here we have a beautiful Belgium Baby Browning Lightweight in nickel. These models are becoming very collectible and going up in price in this condition.
Interesting history from a website:
"Unlike many .25s, the Baby Browning and its VP predecessor are reliable with the full-metal-jacketed round-nose rounds that were all that was available in 1905. The Baby Browning sold around the world, but not in the USA until long after his death, when Browning Arms, an importer controlled by his sons, cut a deal with FN. Some Babies were brought back from Europe, especially by GIs, but official importation of the Baby Browning began in 1954 and ended in 1969 when the terms of the Gun Control Act of 1968 took effect, one part of which was a ban on the importation of small handguns (a ban that remains in force today). The vast majority of these guns were the Standard model, blued steel with plastic grips, but some were the Renaissance version with a gold plated trigger and optional engraving and plating, and a few were an alloy-framed Lightweight version.
"The lightweight is interesting in that its frame is not an SAE or DIN aluminum alloy, but “Hiduminium,” a proprietary alloy made by High Duty Alloys, a spinoff of Rolls-Royce Aero Engines from around the time those engines were winning the Schneider Cup air races."
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Item Name: FS Collectors-Belgium Baby Browning Lightweight NICKEL .25
Location: Little Hollywood-Covington
Zip Code: 30014
Item is for: Sale Only
Sale Price: 650
Caliber: .25
Willing to Ship: No
Bill of Sale Required?: No but must be over 21 years old, current GA resident and legally allowed to own a firearm. I want to see a current GA Drivers License and prefer to peak at a carry permit.
Item Description: Another offered from my "mouse gun collection". Here we have a beautiful Belgium Baby Browning Lightweight in nickel. These models are becoming very collectible and going up in price in this condition.
Interesting history from a website:
"Unlike many .25s, the Baby Browning and its VP predecessor are reliable with the full-metal-jacketed round-nose rounds that were all that was available in 1905. The Baby Browning sold around the world, but not in the USA until long after his death, when Browning Arms, an importer controlled by his sons, cut a deal with FN. Some Babies were brought back from Europe, especially by GIs, but official importation of the Baby Browning began in 1954 and ended in 1969 when the terms of the Gun Control Act of 1968 took effect, one part of which was a ban on the importation of small handguns (a ban that remains in force today). The vast majority of these guns were the Standard model, blued steel with plastic grips, but some were the Renaissance version with a gold plated trigger and optional engraving and plating, and a few were an alloy-framed Lightweight version.
"The lightweight is interesting in that its frame is not an SAE or DIN aluminum alloy, but “Hiduminium,” a proprietary alloy made by High Duty Alloys, a spinoff of Rolls-Royce Aero Engines from around the time those engines were winning the Schneider Cup air races."
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