Browning BDA (other)
Browning BDA may refer to: * FN HP-DA, also known as Browning BDA9 or Browning Hi-Power BDA * SIG-Sauer P220, also sold as Browning BDA .45 ACP in United States circa late 1970s * Browning BDA 380 The FN 140DA - also known as Browning BDA 380 - was a semi-automatic weapon produced by both FN Herstal of Belgium and Beretta of Italy. Overview The production of this pistol design started in 1976. The new model was to replace the FN 1922/B ...

FN HP-DA
FN HP-DA (''Browning Hi-Power, Hi-Power Double Action'') is a 9×19mm Parabellum, 9mm semi-automatic pistol developed by Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, Fabrique Nationale arms factory in Herstal. In North American markets, it was marketed as Browning BDA (''Browning Double Action'', also BDA9) and is also referred to as Browning DA and Browning Hi-Power BDA. Introduced in 1983, it is an update of the Browning Hi-Power (a.k.a. GP 35 in Belgium and French-speaking countries). The overall design layout of all versions of the pistol is based on the Browning Hi-Power, but the firearm features significant ergonomic changes designed to update the weapon to military requirements of its time. Overview The BDA represents the further development of the widely used FN/Browning Hi-Power, which, by 1980s, had been production for almost 50 years before design on BDA was completed. The development of the BDA may have been response to original Hi-Power's shortcomings in the first Joint ...
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SIG-Sauer P220
The SIG Sauer P220 is a semi-automatic pistol. Designed in 1975 by the SIG Arms AG division of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (now SIG Holding AG), and produced by J. P. Sauer & Sohn, in Eckernförde; it is currently manufactured by both SIG Sauer companies: SIG Sauer GMBH, of Eckernförde, Germany; and SIG Sauer, Inc., of New Hampshire, United States. History Not to be confused with SIG P210 series, which licensed the Petter-Browning system from SACM of France in 1938, the SIG Sauer P220 was developed for release in 1975 for the Swiss Army as a replacement for the SIG P210, which had been developed during World War II; in service it is known as "Pistole 75" (P75). For the commercial production and distribution of the P220, SIG partnered with J.P. Sauer & Sohn of Germany, thus, the P220 and all subsequent pistols from SIG and J.P. Sauer & Sohn are properly known as SIG Sauer pistols. In 1975, Switzerland became the first nation to officially adopt the P220 as the " ...
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