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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Browning Handguns Msg# 1152965
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I distinctly remember getting one into the store from our distributors as a new gun when I worked in the gun dept. at the ranch & home store in CA, '84-'85. Would have been marked Browning BDA, and was in .45ACP. For some strange reason, NIB versions of the BDA seemed to have stuck around years past their importation dates. As for Browning using BDA as a model designation, it was later used for the high capacity .380 that was developed by Beretta. A very attractive pistol IMO. And there was the FN designed pistol that Browning tried to market that was sorta, kinda a double action BHP (called the HP-DA in Europe), called the Browning Hi-Power BDA. Harvey |
OTOH, based on examples of estate sales mentioned here, Browning collectors might have bought them and made them safe queens.