FB Radom is making a special edition of the classic VIS 35 Eagle pistol (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

The Radom VIS is set for a 50-pistol run this year in Poland and could see wider commercial manufacture. (Photos: FB)
Poland’s classic WWII-era combat handgun is returning to production for a limited run to celebrate the country’s independence.
Fabryka Broni Łucznik Radom is best known today for their Beryl carbines and assorted modern sub guns, pistols, and sporting rifles. However, back in the 1930s, the company produced Pistolet wz. 35, commonly known as the VIS after an acronym for the inventors’ last names. Some 50,000 such guns were made for the country’s military prior to World War II — with Polish Eagle markings — and the Germans liked the single-stack 9mm so much they cranked out another 300,000 simplified guns, sans Eagles, for their own use during the war.
Long out of regular production, FB now intends to make a special edition VIS to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country’s liberation from Austrian/German/Russian occupation gained after World War I.
The VIS is so-named from an acronym from the inventors’ last names, Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński.
The gun is marked “100 LAT NIEPODLEGŁEJ” which translates roughly to “100 years of independence.” The special VIS also carries the banner of the 2 Dywizja Kawalerii

Source: Guns.com