Issues reported with the gun when it was in its original production run included some of the units delivered with missing or inoperable magazines.

The 10mm Auto caliber was at first unique to this pistol, and produced initially by FFV Norma AB of Åmotfors, Sweden.

Semi-automatic pistols offered high rates of fire and quick reloading, but generally used small rounds that would neither overstress the mechanism nor the shooter.

Revolvers were offered in calibers with considerably more power than the semi-automatic pistols, but held only a small number of rounds and were fairly slow to reload.

What was needed, they believed, was a semi-automatic pistol with its greater ammunition capacity and faster reloads, but one that would deliver power exceeding both the .45 ACP and the .357 Magnum.

The company was formally incorporated as Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises Inc. on July 15, 1981, in California, and a new factory was set up in Huntington Beach.

His ballistic requirements were that a 40 caliber 200-grain (13 g) FMJTC bullet fired from a 5-inch (13 cm) barrel have a minimum target impact velocity at all reasonable combat ranges out to 50 meters of 1,000 feet per second (300 m/s).

Very early guns feature rear sights adjustable for windage with opposing tension set screws.

The Bren Ten is a short recoil operated, locked breech semi-automatic pistol that uses a Browning Hi-Power style linkless system.

Basically, the only differences between the Standard Model and the rest of the Bren Ten line deal with finish, barrel length and chambering.

The Bren Ten Standard Models could combine a stainless steel frame and a blued carbon steel slide, though some collectors/owners opted for aftermarket hard chroming factory blued slides to make the pistols look like the Miami Vice Bren Tens.

These included posters, silk screened T-shirts, baseball caps, jacket patches, tie tacs/lapel pins, web Parabelts and brass belt buckles.

In 1986 after Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises Inc. closed, entrepreneur Richard Voit purchased all intellectual and certain physical assets from the bankruptcy courts and established The Bren Ten Corporation.

Peregrine Industries, however, fell victim to the Savings and Loan scandals of the early 1990s and saw their lines of credit disappear.

[1] The blog hinted that the project would involve a more modern version of the Bren Ten design, but offered little other information.

[2] In January 2015 the company released a letter stating that their efforts to produce the firearm had not met quality standards but that they were still committed to the project and predicted going into full production in 2016.