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Canada to Destroy Thousands of Classic Browning Hi-Power Pistols
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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 4262446" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>It's their armed forces giving up their Hi Powers for the SIG 320. But now Canada is transitioning to the Sig-Sauer P320 for their primary service sidearm, and since Canadian civilians can not legally own the Hi-Power under that country's onerous gun laws, they are <a href="https://www.ammoland.com/2024/05/canadian-government-aims-to-destroy-browning-hi-power-pistols/" target="_blank">scheduled to be scrapped</a>, and that's an utter waste.</p><p><em>At this time the Canadian Forces has 11,896 Browning handguns in its inventory, National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier told this newspaper. Of those, 1,323 are non-functioning.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>David Pugiliese, the reporter on Canadian Forces and military issues, has been following the saga of replacing and destroying the Browning Hi-Power pistols, which have been used by the Canadian military since WWII. Most of the pistols were part of a production run done at the end of the war. The Canadian military has been working on the project for many years. From David Pugiliese, <a href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-military-to-destroy-browning-pistols-save-some-for-museums" target="_blank">Ottowa Citizen October 13, 2022</a>:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 4262446, member: 44288"] It's their armed forces giving up their Hi Powers for the SIG 320. But now Canada is transitioning to the Sig-Sauer P320 for their primary service sidearm, and since Canadian civilians can not legally own the Hi-Power under that country's onerous gun laws, they are [URL='https://www.ammoland.com/2024/05/canadian-government-aims-to-destroy-browning-hi-power-pistols/']scheduled to be scrapped[/URL], and that's an utter waste. [I]At this time the Canadian Forces has 11,896 Browning handguns in its inventory, National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier told this newspaper. Of those, 1,323 are non-functioning.[/I] David Pugiliese, the reporter on Canadian Forces and military issues, has been following the saga of replacing and destroying the Browning Hi-Power pistols, which have been used by the Canadian military since WWII. Most of the pistols were part of a production run done at the end of the war. The Canadian military has been working on the project for many years. From David Pugiliese, [URL='https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-military-to-destroy-browning-pistols-save-some-for-museums']Ottowa Citizen October 13, 2022[/URL]: [/QUOTE]
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