Dieudonne Saive

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Dieudonne Saive was a Belgian small arms designer who designed the FN-49 and the FN-FAL. He became the head firearms developer of Fabrique Nationale after the death of John Browning. After John Browning's death, Saive continued with and finished the design started by Browning on the P-35 pistol commonly known as the Browning Hi-Power. It was the first handgun to utilize a double stack magazine allowing a total of thirteen rounds to be loaded without an oversized grip or having the magazine protruding from below the grip.

[edit] References

• Johnson, Wayne, and Anthony Vanderlinden (December 2005). "The Last of its Kind: FN's Model 1949 Self-Loading Rifle", American Rifleman: 60–63, 94.