Spanish Terrorist FN HP

[bici]

This example is also part of my HP collection.
It was confiscated in 2006 from the now ex terrorist organisation ETA in the Spanish Bask country.
It was confiscated together with a Sten gun and FN made Uzis from the cuban contract( Cuban crest)....No Idea why FN sold uzis to Cuba..? ..A totalitarian state..

I have also written to FN about this FN HP if they could explain how it ended up in the hands of the deadliest terrorist group of Spain in modern history.
But they are keeping silence... no answers..
The FN HP can be considered  as the ETA 's oficial side arm through their bloody history.
Somehow ETA must have had excellent connections  in Belgium for their FN HP purchases.

One or 2 Spanish museums have some examples of the ETA HP, thanks to a judge in 2006 this HP was able to  become privat property.

The front end of the slide  on the 1973 HP does not have the protecting protruding ring that was introduced by FN in 73 ...

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[cmdrcody]

The “hog nose” bushing may have first appeared in 1973, but it was several years before it was seen on practically all of the current production then. Once they went away from it there was also an overlap. One thing about FN is they are consistently inconsistent.

[Bob Reed]

That's an interesting piece of history (the gun & story) - does the serial number on the frame match w/slide & barrel?

With all due respect, asking FN how a pistol wound-up anywhere other than who/where it was originally shipped, would be like me calling-up Browning and asking how an Auto-5 w/serial number such-n-such wound-up at my neighbor's house.

[bici]

The pistol is all matching numbers.

I wrote to fn because a collector in Belgium gave me an email from someone in the factory ....but even so ..no answer..
I guess a script writer and movie director could make a good thriller how many fn hp s ended up with ETA..

[cmdrcody]

Mar 4, 2024 12:57:48 GMT -5 bici said:

This example is also part of my HP collection.
It was confiscated in 2006 from the now ex terrorist organisation ETA in the Spanish Bask country.
It was confiscated together with a Sten gun and FN made Uzis from the cuban contract( Cuban crest)....No Idea why FN sold uzis to Cuba..? ..A totalitarian state..

I have also written to FN about this FN HP if they could explain how it ended up in the hands of the deadliest terrorist group of Spain in modern history.
But they are keeping silence... no answers..
The FN HP can be considered  as the ETA 's oficial side arm through their bloody history.
Somehow ETA must have had excellent connections  in Belgium for their FN HP purchases.

One or 2 Spanish museums have some examples of the ETA HP, thanks to a judge in 2006 this HP was able to  become privat property.

The front end of the slide  on the 1973 HP does not have the protecting protruding ring that was introduced by FN in 73 ...

My grandfather on my mother’s side was from the Basque region of Spain. Is it near Bask?

[bici]

Yes I meant Basque country..país Vasco.
I just wrote it in a different way.
The ETA had underground gun hiding places for their guns,they were called zulos.

[cpwlew]

Mar 4, 2024 12:57:48 GMT -5 bici said:

This example is also part of my HP collection.
It was confiscated in 2006 from the now ex terrorist organisation ETA in the Spanish Bask country.
It was confiscated together with a Sten gun and FN made Uzis from the cuban contract( Cuban crest)....No Idea why FN sold uzis to Cuba..? ..A totalitarian state..

I have also written to FN about this FN HP if they could explain how it ended up in the hands of the deadliest terrorist group of Spain in modern history.
But they are keeping silence... no answers..
The FN HP can be considered  as the ETA 's oficial side arm through their bloody history.
Somehow ETA must have had excellent connections  in Belgium for their FN HP purchases.

One or 2 Spanish museums have some examples of the ETA HP, thanks to a judge in 2006 this HP was able to  become privat property.

The front end of the slide  on the 1973 HP does not have the protecting protruding ring that was introduced by FN in 73 ...

FN also had a Cuban HP contract.  I know of one example.

 

[CXM]

Good point. I'd also suggest the weapons did not come directly from FN but rather via cuba who frequently armed terrorists.

As to why FN sold to cuba, The answer is pretty simple... money.. or goods that could be easily converted to cash such as cigars or tobacco, sugar or other crops.

Money talks

FWIW

Chuck

Mar 4, 2024 18:24:36 GMT -5 Bob Reed said:

That's an interesting piece of history (the gun & story) - does the serial number on the frame match w/slide & barrel?

With all due respect, asking FN how a pistol wound-up anywhere other than who/where it was originally shipped, would be like me calling-up Browning and asking how an Auto-5 w/serial number such-n-such wound-up at my neighbor's house.

[bici]

This is not a Cuban contract fn pistol this one came like most of their FN HP from contacts in Belgium.