I was able to come upon one of these FEG handguns less than a year ago and have been quite pleased with it. There were several different variants of the FEG with different finishes and uses, but they were mainly produced for export. Known as the FEG ( Fegyver És Gépgyár) Hi-Power, it was produced starting in the 1970s and was known to be a quality, near exact copy of the Browning Hi-Power. One country that produced the Hi-Power was Hungary. During World War Two both the Allies and the Axis in Europe used the Hi-Power: the Nazis took over the Belgian factories and put them into production for their forces while the Allies were given plans for the Hi-Power and began producing the handgun in Canada.īritian, Argentina, Columbia, Canada, Germany, China, Belgium, Greece, Israel, the United States (FBI), Poland, Luxembourg, Iraq, and dozens more countries have put the Hi-Power to use. It was, at the time, the AK-47 of the pistol world: everyone made and used them. As a military sidearm it was adopted, copied, ripped off, or stolen by dozens of countries across the world over the last 77 years. The Belgian military adopted the Hi-Power as its sidearm and the love affair took off from there.
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