The FN/Browning 1910 was a pocket pistol that came out as the name implies - in 1910. It gained a reputation world-wide for its reliability and ease of use, and it was also one of the more accurate pocket pistols made at that time. The originals were commonly available in .32 and .380 ACP, the latter of which is the subject of Marushin's Airsoft version. This particular model, the "Secret Agent" model, has a threaded barrel and comes with a replica sound suppressor. It would not surprise me to see factual information that noted a high amount of use of the 1910 by covert organizations.
Appearance
Marushin is apparently known for their excellent gas guns, but this was the first one I had ever laid hands on. The overall appearance is excellent, with the finish being a nice even black, and the grips look like perfect copies of the originals. The safety catch and trigger are metal, and look exactly like their original counterparts - the trigger even has a widened front portion like a real 1910 trigger. The sights are negligible - there is a very shallow groove along the top of the slide, with a minuscule post at the front and a tiny notch at the back - just like the real one. This is a pistol meant more for up-close instinctive shooting than mid- to long-range aimed fire. The magazine is a scrawny single BB tube, but that's not such a big deal when one looks at:
Function
This pistol is not a gas blowback, so a gas charge seems to last forever. The pistol's got to have a tiny gas reservoir since the grip is so small, but I've fired well over 60 rounds so far on a single gas charging. To load this pistol, you simply pull the magazine out - there is no magazine catch; it's held in place by a spring-loaded detent. Then you pull the BB follower all the way down where it is held in place by the same detent that holds the magazine in the gun. You drop ten BBs down the tube and stick the magazine back in the gun, whereupon the detent disengages the follower and locks the magazine into the pistol's grip. A pretty neat idea, though it doesn't allow the carrying of pre-loaded extra magazines since there's nothing holding the BBs in place in the magazine. Since this is not a blowback pistol, another method for feeding BBs is needed. Here they chose to employ a double-action-like trigger pull which feeds a BB and then opens the gas valve. The trigger pull on this gun is extremely heavy - if anyone out there has fired a real H&K VP-70, then you know what I'm talking about. It's probably a twenty pound or more trigger. There is one advantage to the heavy trigger though - it prevents you from unloading your pistol at the drop of a hat, which would be a problem with this one since it only holds ten rounds. At least the pull is smooth and crisp when it finally lets off. I haven't been able to get into the Secret Agent mode with this one, since whoever painted the muzzle orange got a ton of paint in the super-fine threads. I tried cleaning it out, but even after that I think there was enough paint to ruin the threads on both the muzzle and the suppressor. (UPDATE) I finally got the suppressor to fit on through brute force, and having it on the pistol makes it a lot more fun to shoot. Even though the suppressor obstructs the sights, this pistol points so well instinctively for me that I have no trouble hitting cereal-box-size targets to ten yards. (END OF UPDATE) This 1910 is decently powerful, and will dent cereal box cardboard the same as most good spring guns. I have noticed that this gun may be temperamental regarding BBs - it would feed and fire good quality BBs fine, but I tried using some cheap ones and they ended up building up in the barrel and all shooting out at once. It's a neat effect, but you waste all your ammo in one shot after ten trigger pulls and you've got an effective range of about five feet.
Accuracy
This pistol is plenty accurate considering how small it is and considering that it basically doesn't have sights. It shot about an inch low at seven yards, but the group was centered laterally. It spread out two inches on either side of the bull's eye, but that's probably just me not being used to the heavy double action trigger pull. [Supplemental] I suppose it would serve me well to read the manual before using Airsoft equipment. This model has an adjustable Hop-up feature that I have used to dial the accuracy in a bit. More later. [Supplemental] Well, the Hop-up system works nicely on this, and I've improvised the attachment of the suppressor. With the suppressor in place and the Hop-up dialed in with .25g BBs, the group size is about half what it was previously. Note - the suppressor does get in the way of the sights, but its added length aids in instinctive shooting. UPDATE: After firing this and the three other Marushin Secret Agent guns we've got, the 1910 did fairly well against the other models out to 25 yards. It wasn't as accurate or powerful as the 1911A1, but it was more accurate than the Walther P88 and more powerful than the PPK. If I had to guess, I'd say I scored between 80-90% hits on a human silhouette target out to 25 yards.
Overall Impressions
This is a really fun pistol, and it would be an excellent backup. It has a super low price, too (just a little more than a nice spring pistol), so I would highly recommend adding it to your collection. I think it would be incredibly fun to get several people armed with nothing but these pistols (in Secret Agent configuration, of course) and run around a deserted office building in a secret agent free-for-all.