After Browning's death, a man named Dieudonne Saive, working for FN, fully developed and brought the Hi-Power to production. In fact, Browning had to work around his own patents on the 1911 pistol ...

Front and rear sights are fitted into Browning Hi-Power-pattern dovetails. The pistols have “Mark II”-style ambidextrous safety levers. Magazines are of the original High Power configuration ...

The Browning Hi Power handgun was designed by Browning in the late 1920s in response to a competition for the new French Army pistol, which was dubbed the Grande Puissance (“high power”) 35.