That I didnt say, but its a common misconception as the name Browning is often linked to the GP35. In the post above you quote me and link me to saying, that the Vis 35 developed from the FN GP35. York also includes a copy of the 1932 dated Polish patent for the VIS 35 in his book. York acknowledges that VIS designers Wilniewczyc and Skrzypinski would have been aware of both the FN Browning Model 1930 Hi Efficiency and Model 1935 Hi Power. York further writes that both Robert Berger and Peter Kokalis consider the accepted idea that the VIS was designed with the assistance of engineers from Fabrique Nationale to be a myth. York writes that ''its design was heavily borrowed' from the Colt 1911 (another John Browning design) but with significant differences. Instead he writes that the VIS 35 and Hi Power were parallel developments.
While there are similarities between the VIS 35 and the FN Browning Hi Power, in his book VIS Radom, William York writes that the claimed influenced of the Hi Power on the design of the VIS 35 is a misconception. Was hoping that someone who knows more than I would respond to this, but since no one has. Nice simplified Browning design - cant go wrong with that. My favourite handgun of WWII and one of the best engineered to emerge from that conflict IMO.
