Editing Browning Hi-Power (section)

===Decline and resurgence===
While the Hi-Power remains an excellent and iconic design, since the early 1990s it has been eclipsed somewhat by more modern designs which are often double-action with aluminum alloy frames and are manufactured using more modern methods. However, even to this day, the Hi-Power remains in service throughout the world. As of 2017, the MK1 version remained the standard service pistol of the [[Canadian Armed Forces]], with the [[SIG Sauer P226]] being issued to specialised units along with the [[SIG Sauer P220#P225.2FP6|SIG Sauer P225]]. The weapon is the standard sidearm of the [[Belgian Land Component|Belgian Army]], [[Indian Army]], [[Indonesian Armed Forces]], [[Australian Defence Force]], [[Argentine Army]], [[Luxembourg Armed Forces]], [[Israel Police]], and [[Venezuelan Army]], among others. The [[Irish Army]] replaced its Browning Pistols (known popularly as BAPs, or Browning Automatic Pistols) with the [[Heckler & Koch USP]] in 2007. From 2013 the [[British Army]] is replacing the Browning with the [[polymer]]-framed [[Glock 17|Glock 17 Gen 4]] pistol, due to concerns about weight and the external safety of the pistol.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/browning_9mm_finally_replaced/ |title=British armed forces get first new pistol since World War II |work=[[The Register]] |date=2013-01-11 |access-date=2013-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080615/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/browning_9mm_finally_replaced/ |archive-date=2013-01-17 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2018, FN announced they would end production of the Mark III Hi-Power, which was expensive to produce and had been assembled in Portugal to cut costs. Early in that year, Browning officially ceased production of the Belgian Hi-Power for the first time since 1935. An unlicensed clone called the "Regent BR9" was produced in Turkey by [[TİSAŞ]] in 2019 and had gained some popularity now that authentic Hi-Powers were no longer being made and surplus Hi-Powers from other countries like Hungary and Argentina had dried up. The Regent BR9 design was more of a copy of the Mark I design, but did offer some modern design features, like a Cerakote or stainless steel finish and Novak-style sights.<ref name="Tisas BR9 Vs. Browning's Hi-Power"/> The BR9 was soon discontinued, but, in 2021, another Turkish company called [[GİRSAN]] began producing their own Hi-Power clone called the MCP35, imported by [[European American Armory|EAA]]. In 2021, American firearms company [[Springfield Armory]] announced their own Hi-Power clone, the SA-35.<ref name="SA-35 Handguns"/> GİRSAN and Springfield Armory's clones began competing with each other by offering new design improvements that would help them compete in the oversaturated defensive handgun market. GİRSAN's MCP35 attempted to replicate the Mark III design as closely as possible, including the Belgian-style ambidextrous thumb safety, Mark III-style sights with a windage drift adjustable rear sight and dovetailed front sight, and Mark III-style black polymer grips. The MCP35 also retained the Belgian magazine disconnect safety. However, the MCP35 incorporated the original ring hammer design instead of the claw hammer design of the Mark III and also incorporated some design elements to appeal to the modern shooter, such as a 15-round Mec-Gar magazine and Cerakote finish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eaacorp.com/product/girsan-mc-p35/|title=Girsan MCP35|date=8 November 2023 }}</ref>

[[File:FN Browning High Power (right side).png|left|thumb|FN Browning High Power M46]]
The steady competition between the MCP35 and the SA-35 to make the original Hi-Power relevant to the market stirred up a great interest among both Hi-Power fans and new shooters. On 18 January 2022, after a four-year hiatus, FN announced they would resume production of the Browning Hi-Power, albeit with a number of upgraded features.<ref name="Highpower"/> FN named the 2022 redesign the "FN High Power" and incorporated a number of features to help it compete with the improved Hi-Power clones being made by GİRSAN and Springfield Armory. FN incorporated a number of changes that would make the classic Hi-Power design more modern and ergonomic. The most significant changes included opening up the top of the slide to increase the size of the ejection port to ensure reliable feeding and ejection, incorporating an ambidextrous slide lock and reversible magazine release, a completely different takedown that is faster and simpler, and redesigning the barrel and recoil spring. Other changes FN made include removing the magazine disconnect safety, adding an extended beavertail and redesigned hammer to eliminate the issue of hammer bite, several sets of redesigned grips, new sights compatible with the [[FN 509]] dovetail pattern, wider slide serrations, different colored [[Physical vapor deposition|PVD]] or stainless steel finish offerings and 17-round magazines. The new FN High Powers will be made at FN's Columbia, South Carolina factory in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/01/18/fn-hi-power-reborn/|title=&#91;SHOT 2022&#93; the FN Hi-Power is Reborn -|date=18 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/new-for-2022-fn-high-power/|title = An Official Journal of the NRA &#124; New for 2022: FN High Power}}</ref><ref name="Highpower"/>

At SHOT show 2022, GİRSAN announced new color offerings for the MCP35, including two-tone and gold, as well as the MCP35 "Match", which incorporated a number of designs intended to cater to target shooters, such as an integrated 1913 [[Picatinny rail]] for accessories, ergonomic grips, a shorter hammer throw, beveled and flared magwell, a flat target trigger and raised target sights with a fiber optic front sight.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/01/19/shot-2022-2022-year-hi-power-girsan-mcp35-new-pistols-eaa/|title=&#91;SHOT 2022&#93; is 2022 the Year of the Hi-Power? Girsan MCP35 and Other new Pistols from EAA -|date=19 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/01/19/shot-2022-eaa-girsan-mc-p35-year-hi-power/|title = &#91;SHOT 2022&#93; the Modern Hi-Power, the EAA/Girsan MC P35 Match -|date = 19 January 2022}}</ref> 

At SHOT Show in 2024, Tennessee-based company SDS Imports announced that they were reviving the [[John Inglis and Company|John Inglis line]] of military-spec, parkerized Inglis Browning Hi-Power clones. SDS CEO Tim Mulverhill stated: "The market demand has not been met for historically accurate Hi-Powers. We’re planning for the L9A1 to influence the Hi-Power market the way the Tisas US Army did in the 1911 market".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guns.com/news/2024/01/08/inglis-reborn-to-market-period-correct-hi-powers|title = INGLIS REBORN, TO MARKET PERIOD CORRECT HI-POWERS|date = 8 January 2024}}</ref> The new Inglis Hi-Powers are available in black chromate, black Cerakote, satin [[nickel]] and color [[case-hardened]] finishes. The SDS Inglis line is essentially a more military accurate version of the now-discontinued Regent BR9, and it is a fully interchangeable Mark III design.

In August 2024, another Browning Hi-Power clone, the Centurion 14, was announced by [[Century Arms]]. The Centurion 14 is built in Turkey by Alpharms Savunma Sanayi, and imported by Century Arms.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://gundigest.com/handguns/centurion-14-review | title=First Look: Century Arms Centurion 14 | date=15 August 2024 }}</ref>