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May 27, 2016 · The book John M. Browning American Gunmaker is a tremendous asset and gives us more than a glimpse at the Browning Brothers’ biographies, but it has also propelled an inaccurate perception.
John M. Browning, American Gunmaker: A Illustrated Biography of the Man and His Guns. John Browning, Curt Gentry. Doubleday, 1964 - Browning firearms - 323 pages.
Sir John Bowring KCB FRS FRGS, or Phrayā Siam Mānukūlakicca Siammitra Mahāyaśa (17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872) was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong.
John Moses Browning. gunsmith, inventor Born: 1/21/1855 Birthplace: Ogden, Utah Raised by Mormon parents, he made his first gun from scrap iron at age 13. He founded the Browning Brothers Company, which was responsible for several innovations in firearms, including the breech-loading single-shot rifle (1879) and the Browning automatic pistol (1911).
May 25, 2021 · Browning’s impact on American firearm culture and world history can hardly be overstated. His light, accurate and famous Winchester “.30-30” hunting rifle and pump-action shotguns dominated ...
Born in Ogden, Utah, John Browning spent most of his formative years in his father's gunsmith shop, where he made his first rifle out of scrap iron at theage of thirteen. In 1879, Browning received his first patent for a single-shot rifle that wasloaded from the rear rather than from the muzzle.
May 25, 2021 · The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose astonishing array of firearms armed American troops since before World War I, proved decisive in World War II, and became integral to American culture.
