I haven’t heard of anything about them until now. I’ve checked their website (FN Herstal) and there isn’t any mention of a licensing agreement that I could find. I did find a website offering the guns for others to view.

http://www.sarcoinc.com/fm-hipower1-new.html

I haven’t used them, nor do I really want to. With my opinion, I tend to believe if a person wants a quality pistol to stick with the originals, and pay the price for them.