FN Model 1910/22

[Peter Laidler]

Strange little pistols. Quite a puzzle for Armourers and one was passed around the design course. As I seem to remember this little enigma, the ejection is caused by the striker or firing pin stopping at a given point within the slide as the slide recoils rearwards from the fixed(?) barrel. As such, it's the striker that kicks the spent case out of the pistol.

The obvious question from the students was '....... well, what happens if you simply want to eject a chambered but UNFIRED round?'. Good point. In that situation, if you hand cocked the pistol hard enough, the striker COULD fire the unsupported (except for the linear support of the extractor of course.....) round you're attempting to extract. We concluded that while this was possible in THEORY, it was not factual in practice because you could never exert enough momentum on the slide to cause the striker to detonate the round. Before it even got close to that situation, the same striker will kick the live case out to the right.
But NEVER SAY NEVER!

The mathematics and physics plus some range tests using a couple of old ' government buy-in/amnesty' pistols confirmed this. Clever eh! But nice little pistols, especially the .32's