Bren Ten: The Most Tactical Pistol

The Bren Ten is an interesting story of handgun development and business failure. The gun was first developed by Dornaus Dixon, with the consulting help of the iconic Col. Jeff Cooper. It was intended to be a handgun to improve upon the venerable 1911 in every way. To satisfy the adherents to the theory of largecaliber handgun cartridges, the gun was designed around a new 10mm cartridge designed by Norma. This cartridge would propel a 200 grain bullet at 1200 fps from a 5 inch barrel, making it the most powerful service handgun cartridge in production. It would use a 10round magazine, and also be convertible to. 45ACP. The gun itself was based on the excellent Czech CZ75 (made at Brno, which is where the Bren portion of the pistol s name came from). It had full length slide rails, a DA, SA trigger that could be carried cocked and locked, and nice big sights. Unfortunately, a combination of production quality problems