Development
The Bren Ten was a complete pistol and cartridge concept that started in the late 1970s, co-developed by firearms expert Jeff Cooper; the Bren Ten and its 10mm cartridge were developed primarily to give law enforcement and military personnel the most powerful, yet still practical service pistol available. The Bren Ten never saw large scale production and manufacturing ended in 1986. Several years later there was an attempt to bring a Bren Ten style pistol to market, as the Peregrine Falcon, however this effort fell victim to financial problems and never went into production.
In early 2008, Vltor Weapon Systems started development of the Fortis pistol. Vltor were able to locate all of the original blueprints, drawings and engineering notes from the original Bren Ten and received overwhelming support from many of the original supporters of the concept, including Jeff Cooper's surviving family. They were initially not able to secure the right to use the name "Bren Ten" and decided to market the new pistol under the name "Fortis". 27 July 2009 Vltor announced that they had acquired the rights to the Bren Ten name and that the pistol would be sold as the Bren Ten rather than Fortis.
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