The original Hi-Power went out of production in 2017. The "High Power" / "Hi-Power" designation was actually meant to indicate the higher round capacity of the gun (13 rounds) when compared to other contemporary semi-autos like the M1911 series (7 rounds), rather than the "power" of the weapon itself. The design would be adopted by other countries and manufactured abroad with the generic designation simply as the Browning High Power or the Hi-Power. During World War II, the Germans would occupy the Belgian firearms factories and continued to produce this gun, deleting the magazine safety to reduce production time, as the "Pistole 640(b)" (where the "(b)" meant "Belgische", "Belgian") with Waffenamt stamps. It was initially developed by John Browning and completed by Dieudonné Saive (who would later design the FN FAL) following Browning's death, and adopted by Belgium in 1935. The first version of the Browning Hi-Power was known as the FN P-35.
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