FN shotgun

[7mm ed]

 I have a sxs shotgun that say maid in Spain . Dose anybody know what fn stands for?
its 3" 28"in .

            thanks ed

[Huntbear]

Fabrique Nationale would be my best guess. 

[7mm ed]

didnt Fn make browning shotguns ?

[bowhuntin]

didnt Fn make browning shotguns ?

I think you are correct. I think they used to manufacture the Browning A5's. I have a 1950s rifle that is browning that has the Fn on the barrel also, so they produced more than just shotguns for browning.

Here is some history from wikipedia...

John Browning presented his design (which he called his best achievement[3]) to Winchester, where he had sold most of his previous designs. When Winchester refused his terms, Browning went to Remington. Tragically, the president of Remington died of a heart attack as Browning waited to offer them the gun. This forced Browning to look overseas to produce the shotgun. It was produced by FN (a company that had already produced Browning-designed pistols) starting in 1902. Remington would later license-produce it as the Remington Model 11. (It was also license-produced by Savage and Franchi.[3]) The Model 11 was the first autoloading shotgun made in the USA. Production in Belgium continued until the start of World War II, when Browning-marked examples were produced by Remington Arms in the United States[4]. Unlike the Remington Model 11, the Remington-produced Browning shotguns had magazine cutoffs. Some 850,000 Remington Model 11 shotguns were produced before production ended in 1947. In 1952, production returned to FN, where it continued to be produced until the end. However, the majority of production moved to Japan in 1975. Finally, in 1998, manufacture of A-5s ceased except for a few commemorative models created at FN in 1999. By that time, it was well-established as the second-best-selling autoloading shotgun in U.S. history, after the Remington 1100.[3]

[7mm ed]

so was fn made in spain that the only righting on the out side of it .
 and when i brake it open the letters nf are stamped on the inside of the breech. somebody told me that fn did that way for a while .  I dont know if that true or not

[Buckshot Bill]

Fabrique Nationale has a few factories but I don't believe they have one in Spain.  I could be wrong though.  They have one in S.C.  and in Belgium that I know of.  I have an FN Belgium Browning A5 12 gauge I bought from a fine gentleman on this site and did some research on it myself and this is what I found out.  FN manufactured a lot of guns in Herstal, Belgium.  They were manufacturerers/owners of Browning as well as Winchester.  Here's more Wikipedia on it.

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often abbreviated as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a Belgian manufacturer of firearms. The official company name is FN Herstal. FN is a subsidiary of the Herstal Group. Herstal also owns the U.S. Repeating Arms Company (Winchester) and Browning Arms Company (an American gun company founded by John Moses Browning's family). Together these divisions form the Herstal Group.
FN originated in the small city of Herstal, near Liège. The Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (French for National Factory of Weapons of War) was established in 1889 to manufacture 150,000 Mauser Model 89 rifles ordered by the Belgian Government.
In 1898 the company entered into a long lasting relationship with John Moses Browning, a well-known firearms designer.
A 1913 FN motorcycle with four cylinder in-line engine and shaft drive sold for $58,000 in a 2007 auctionFN became an important manufacturer of motor vehicles in Belgium, cars were produced in Herstal in the early 20th century, production of FN motorcycles continued until 1965, trucks until 1970.
One of Fabrique Nationale's weapons, a Model 1910 semi-automatic pistol in 7.65 x 17 mm (.32 ACP) (serial number 19074) was used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the event that triggered World War I.
The British .303 Browning aircraft machine gun introduced in the late 1930s and used in World War II was actually a license-built FN Browning design, not a "Colt-Browning" as often referred-to.
John Moses Browning began development of the Browning GP35 'High Power' (sometimes written as Hi-Power) pistol, the GP standing for Grande Puissance or "high power" in French. However, the weapon was finalized by Dieudonné Saive and did not appear until nearly a decade after Browning's death.
FN Manufacturing LLC in Columbia, South Carolina is part of the military division of FN. It is primarily responsible for the development of U.S. government contracted military and law-enforcement weapons, including M16 rifles, M249 SAW light machine guns, M240 medium machine guns, FNP series pistols and M2 machine guns.

Hope this can clear things up for ya.

[actionshooter]

If it was made in Spain, its not a FN. Not sure what the FN means on your shotgun though.

[huntnphool]

I don't have any experience with their shotguns but I have a FiveSeven and love it.

[actionshooter]

I don't have any experience with their shotguns but I have a FiveSeven and love it.

I have a PS90 and its fun 

[huntnphool]

I had one too Action, I sold it and bought a carbon15. I should have kept it though, the 5.7 ammo is much easier than .223 to come by right now.