{"id":16217,"date":"2020-07-22T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/new-model-melior-a-remarkably-nice-belgian-fn-lookalike\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:07:43","slug":"new-model-melior-a-remarkably-nice-belgian-fn-lookalike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/new-model-melior-a-remarkably-nice-belgian-fn-lookalike\/","title":{"rendered":"New Model Melior: A Remarkably Nice Belgian FN Lookalike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-buXr-TVQA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Model Melior was patented just before World War One, but did not go into production until 1920. It was a visual lookalike of the FN Model 1910, where the (retroactively named) Old Model Melior had been a copy of the FN Model 1900. The New Model was actually a remarkably well designed and well-made gun, with a working system quite different from the FN it was externally modeled after. It was in production until the 1950s (with a hiatus during World War Two), which is a remarkable achievement for this sort of pistol. This example is in .380 caliber, which was introduced after 1945, along with a .22 rimfire model.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ozark Machine Gun for loaning me this pistol &#8211; check out his cool machine gun rental range in Missouri!<\/p>\n<p>Reference: Ed Buffaloe has good reference pages on both the Old Model Melior\/Jieffeco (<a href=\"https:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Guns\/R-K\/r-k.html)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Guns\/R-K\/r-k.html)<\/a> and the New Model Melior (<a href=\"https:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Guns\/MelNM\/melnm.html)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Guns\/MelNM\/melnm.html)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons The New Model Melior was patented just before World War One, but did not go into production until 1920. It was a visual lookalike of the FN Model 1910, where the (retroactively named) Old Model Melior had been a copy of the FN Model 1900. The New Model&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/new-model-melior-a-remarkably-nice-belgian-fn-lookalike\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Model Melior: A Remarkably Nice Belgian FN Lookalike<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}