Browning BDM-9mm

The Browning BDM is a semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by the Browning Arm Company from 1991 until production ceased in 1998. Similar in appearance to Browning’s Hi-Power pistol, the BDM was actually a new design created to compete in service trials for a proposal as a standard issue pistol for the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  However, the BDM failed to win any large law enforcement contracts, so was instead sold only in the retail market. Having a similar profile to the Browning P-35 Hi-Power, the BDM and its variants are often conflated as mere variants of the much older P-35 model, or other newer Browning or FN Herstal pistols that were updated variants of the P-35, such as the Hi-Power DAO model. However, the Browning BDM pistol is distinct from all forms of the Browning Hi-Power pistol.