Herstal

In the late 1990s, FNMI, the South Carolina-based subsidiary of Belgian armorer FN Herstal, challenged the exclusive arrangement in federal court but lost.

Arms makers call hired guns as U.S. shops for new rifle 2011

FN Herstal pays the firm $120,000 a year, according to disclosure records.

Arms makers call hired guns as U.S. shops for new rifle 2011

Early in 2008, Herstal of Belgium, which owns FN, Winchester, and Browning, announced that it intended to bring back the old-style Model 70.

The Model 70 Reborn 2009

"FN Herstal originally created its novel 5. 7X28mm cartridge as the ammunition for a submachine gun, the P-90, designed at the invitation of NATO and in response to military needs for a weapon to be used by 'troops who needed both hands for other tasks, such as officers, NCOs and technical troops,' and that would be effective against the body armor that has become a standard accoutrement on the battlefield."

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I thought Herstal was a Belgian company, not a French company.

So long (at least partly) to the Big Red W 2006

The Capitulary (a royal-administrative order divided into capitula, or articles) of Herstal (779) advanced these goals by providing secular assistance to local clergy and assisting in the expansion of a parish system with regular services into rural areas throughout the empire.

795-96 2001

The revolver bore the mark of the Herstal (Belgium) arms factory.

Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

Plancy's _Bibliothèque des Légendes_, may not be without its value, as tending to correct an error into which, according to his account, modern historians have fallen respecting the origin of the surname "Martel," borne by the celebrated Charles Martel, son of Peppin of Herstal, Duke of Austrasia, by his Duchess Alphéide [2]: --

Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 Various

The latter, who was the elder, was married to Ansigisus, son of St. Arnoul, to whom she bore Pepin of Herstal.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

He was grandfather to Pepin of Herstal, the most powerful mayor, whose son was Charles Martel, and grandson Pepin the Short, king of France, in whom began the Carlovingian race.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler