In 1900, an improved design featuring primarily a shorter barrel was introduced as the M1900.

Production ceased only 11 years later, with a total of about 700,000 units having been produced.

Contrary to many reports from various sources, an M1900 was not used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip in that notorious incident was instead a FN 1910.

A Chinese copy of the gun saw usage during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.

Specimens examined by western authorities were marked with the date of 1964.

A silenced variant was produced that featured a shortened slide to allow the threaded barrel to protrude far enough to attach the silencer.

At the start of WWII production moved to Remington in the United States until FN could resume production after the war, actually 1952.

John Browning himself called it his greatest achievement at the time, of course that was before the 1911.45 caliber semiautomatic handgun.

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