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The company took orders for the new gun starting in 1982, with the first production guns being shipped in 1983. However, the Bren Ten had many quality control problems, most notably its magazines, with some pistols shipping with missing or inoperable magazines. Another issue was its high price; it retailed for $500 (equivalent to over $1200 in 2021). The company produced only about 1,500 pistols before going belly-up in 1986, and several later attempts to resurrect the design failed, resulting in the short-lived "Bren Ten Curse" - one company, Peregrine Industries, fell victim to a savings and loan crisis and went bust [[EpicFail before they could sell a single pistol]].\\

The main legacy of the Bren Ten is its cartridge. The FBI adopted the 10mm Auto as its primary cartridge in 1989, but soon concluded it generated too much recoil for most agents and police officers, and that pistols chambered for it were too large for individuals with small hands. They then went to Smith & Wesson and asked them to develop a reduced-velocity version; [=S&W=] realized that they could reduce the length of the cartridge so that it would fit in medium-frame 9mm handguns while meeting the FBI's performance needs. [=S&W=] teamed with Winchester to produce a shortened version of the 10mm Auto that became the .40 [=S&W=], which the FBI soon adopted; it has been one of the most popular law enforcement and self-defense rounds ever since, though not without some controversy early in its life, thanks to several early designs for the cartridge simply being .40 barrels stuck onto existing 9mm frames, resulting in a few exploding from overpressure. As for the 10mm Auto itself, the FBI still issues it to its Hostage Rescue Team and SWAT teams, and it remains modestly popular for self-defense and more so for hunting, and in fact has seen something of a resurgence in the modern day for its ability to reach noticeably higher velocities than other pistol bullets. Notably, it's one of the few rimless semi-automatic cartridges that's legal for hunting deer in many US states.

* Colonel Douglas Mortimer wields one in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore.''

** In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', he happily does target practice with his favorite [=M1911A1=] in Central Park, heaping praise on the gun.

---> A hundred years and four wars old, and those for the United States alone. Its replacement proved its worth by immediately going wrong. Seven in the magazine and one in the chamber. Half the capacity of modern handguns - but eight fat forty-fives, with twice the impact, half the recoil of nine-millimeter rounds. All you have to do is put them where you want them.

[[TechnologyMarchesOn As time went on]], the Hi-Power started to find itself [[SoLastSeason outclassed and outperformed by handguns that were lighter, cheaper, and had bigger magazine capacities]]. The death knell for the Hi-Power truly came when the British military moved to abandon the platform and switched to Glocks in 2013. With its biggest user base gone, the Hi-Power slowly saw its fortunes decline and sales drop, and rumors abounded in 2017 in the firearms community that the gun had been discontinued. These rumors were finally confirmed in January 2018 when the Browning Arms Company updated its website [[http://www.browning.com/products/firearms/pistols/hi-power-pistols.html to show that the Hi-Power was indeed discontinued]] [[LongRunners after 82 years of production]].

While the Canadian Armed Forces still use the Hi-Power as their primary service pistol, they rely on a ''massive'' stockpile of pistols from John Inglis Co. to get replacement parts. The reason for the stockpile was that the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherChineseArmy National Revolutionary Army]] of the Republic of China had also used the pistol, and ordered a massive number, only for that order to fall through due to their poor logistics and [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar obvious]] [[UsefulNotes/ChineseCivilWar reasons]]. As such, Canada ended up with both the Hi-Powers they ordered from Inglis and the Chinese order, put a bunch of them in grease for long term storage, and just take some out when they need some parts. Inglis went on to become an appliance manufacturer, completely leaving the military manufacturing field in 1962, before being bought out by Whirlpool, so the replacement parts are just as old as the pistols themselves. This hasn't worked out very well in the long run, as the average Canadian Hi-Power is now ''75 years old'', many from the first production run, and several of them have had very bad reliability issues because of their age. There was [[https://canadianarmytoday.com/gun-shy-a-protracted-procurement-to-replace-the-general-service-pistol/ one case]] in 2017 where the Canadian Army took 20 Hi-Powers to the Armed Forces Skill At Arms shooting competition in North Little Rock, Arkansas in the States; during the initial warmup, ''15'' of them jammed so badly they couldn't safely be used for the rest of the competition. The CAF wanted to replace them for years, but couldn't for the longest time, taking them until 2022 to decide on a replacement, and the replacement process wouldn't begin until mid-2023[[note]]The reasons why they couldn't were because the government wouldn't give them the money to do so, and the CAF has an extremely slow procurement process that often results in leadership changing before the process can actually finish, resulting in the new leadership having to start the whole process over, which ironically has lead to it costing far more than it should. To give you an idea of how bad it is, in 2016, the Canadian Department of National Defence estimated [[https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-wwii-era-pistols-dangerously-unreliable-but-the-quest-to-find-a-replacement-drags-on that they wouldn't be able to replace the Hi-Power until]] ''2026'', and the program to do so will cost at least $50 million CDN. In 2011, when the British Army decided to replace the Hi-Power with the Glock 17 (as detailed above), it took them two years and cost them the equivalent of $15 million CDN. In case you are wondering, they decided on the SIG Sauer [=P320=][[/note]] Nevertheless, the Hi-Power remains in use with many Third World militaries around the world, and is currently still being license-produced by Ishapore Arms in India.

The end of the Hi-Power later turned out to be [[TenMinuteRetirement short-lived]]: 3 years after its supposed demise, Turkish manufacturer Girsan announced the release of the MC P35 in September 2021, a Hi-Power clone that almost perfectly stays true to the original design other than increasing the capacity of the gun from 13 to 15 rounds. A mere month later, American manufacturer Springfield Armory also announced their SA-35, another largely faithful clone of the gun that also harkens back to its earlier incarnations but removes the much-maligned magazine disconnect safety. Finally, at SHOT Show 2022, FN America revealed its own revival in the form of the [[BlandNameProduct "High Power,"]] although [[https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/fn-high-power-9mm-pistol/459989 seasoned users of the original design]] have noted this particular gun [[InNameOnly has not much in common with John Browning's masterpiece other than a cursory visual similarity]].

* Both the Beretta and Taurus varieties are used in ''Film/TheCrow''. Notably, the bad guys and Eric carry Tauruses, and the cops carry Berettas.

While the Canadian Armed Forces still use the Hi-Power as their primary service pistol, they rely on a ''massive'' stockpile of pistols from John Inglis Co. to get replacement parts. The reason for the stockpile was that the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherChineseArmy National Revolutionary Army]] of the Republic of China had also used the pistol, and ordered a massive number, only for that order to fall through for [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar obvious]] [[UsefulNotes/ChineseCivilWar reasons]]. As such, Canada ended up with both the Hi-Powers they ordered from Inglis and the Chinese order, put a bunch of them in grease for long term storage, and just take some out when they need some parts. Inglis went on to become an appliance manufacturer, completely leaving the military manufacturing field in 1962, before being bought out by Whirlpool, so the replacement parts are just as old as the pistols themselves. This hasn't worked out very well in the long run, as the average Canadian Hi-Power is now ''75 years old'', many from the first production run, and several of them have had very bad reliability issues because of their age. There was [[https://canadianarmytoday.com/gun-shy-a-protracted-procurement-to-replace-the-general-service-pistol/ one case]] in 2017 where the Canadian Army took 20 Hi-Powers to the Armed Forces Skill At Arms shooting competition in North Little Rock, Arkansas in the States; during the initial warmup, ''15'' of them jammed so badly they couldn't safely be used for the rest of the competition. The CAF wanted to replace them for years, but couldn't for the longest time, taking them until 2022 to decide on a replacement, and the replacement process wouldn't begin until mid-2023[[note]]The reasons why they couldn't were because the government wouldn't give them the money to do so, and the CAF has an extremely slow procurement process that often results in leadership changing before the process can actually finish, resulting in the new leadership having to start the whole process over, which ironically has lead to it costing far more than it should. To give you an idea of how bad it is, in 2016, the Canadian Department of National Defence estimated [[https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-wwii-era-pistols-dangerously-unreliable-but-the-quest-to-find-a-replacement-drags-on that they wouldn't be able to replace the Hi-Power until]] ''2026'', and the program to do so will cost at least $50 million CDN. In 2011, when the British Army decided to replace the Hi-Power with the Glock 17 (as detailed above), it took them two years and cost them the equivalent of $15 million CDN. In case you are wondering, they decided on the SIG Sauer [=P320=][[/note]] Nevertheless, the Hi-Power remains in use with many Third World militaries around the world, and is currently still being license-produced by Ishapore Arms in India.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'', Liskarm uses an unidentified Glock variant as her main weapon, paired with a ballistic shield. This makes her the first Defender (until the crossover with ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'' gave us Blitz) that can attack enemies at range. Her partner, Franka, also carries a two-tone compact Glock variant, but she never uses it in actual gameplay.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon'' features it in several games as the "5.7 USG". ''[[VideoGame/GhostReconFutureSoldier Future Soldier]]'' fits it with an extended 30-round magazine that for some reason only holds 18 (presumably to balance it out with Bodark's GSh-18), while ''[[VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands Wildlands]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/GhostReconBreakpoint Breakpoint]]'' give it the correct 20-round magazine model and capacity. The latter's "Deep State" DLC also includes an "SC IS HDG", based on the weapon of the same name from ''VideoGame/SplinterCellBlacklist'', with a slightly reduced capacity but higher power and a large integrated suppressor.

* The Beretta is the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil S.T.A.R.S.]] team's sidearm of choice. The Samurai Edge, developed by a local gunsmith for the team (used by Rebecca and Jill in the original, and everyone in the Director's Cut and ''Zero''), is a heavily modified 92FS Brigadier; the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] [=REmake=] also includes a "Samurai Edge" variant of the .40 S&W Beretta 96 used by Barry alongside his Colt Python, with an extended compensator and magazine that makes it resemble Franchise/RoboCop's Auto-9.

* The UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} port of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' replaces the vaguely-Glock-shaped handgun with what appears to be a Hi-Power (going by [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8b/Duke64_gun2.jpg the design and placement of the slide release]]) that's fitted with a LaserSight. Other than looks it's identical in function to the PC version's Glock, including reloads with every twelve bullets.

* Despite popular demand, Glock has never seriously branched out and applied their successful design to other types of firearms. Though there have been rumblings throughout the years, Glock has never so much as hinted at releasing a carbine, rifle, or shotgun model; their entire lineup of offerings has been handguns ever since the company's inception. A rifle, the GR-115F, was confirmed in late 2022 as part of British military trials to possibly replace the [=SA80=], though all available info makes it appear to simply be a relatively standard AR-15 derivative with existing aftermarket furniture attached.

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