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Jul 7, 2024 · Any movie, tv show, video game, where someone grabs the top of the handgun and slides it back to let it snap forward, ready to fire…that’s all due to John Moses Browning. In March 1897 Browning made his first trip to Liege Belgium, where the Fabrique National d’Armes de Guerre factory was located.
2 days ago · Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax .
Jul 14, 2024 · Continuing my love affair with historical firearms, we’re gonna take a more objective look at the works of John Moses Browning with this weeks book, The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein.
5 days ago · This fully-illustrated biography gives unique insights into the mind and workshop of John M. Browning, the...
Jul 8, 2024 · Tod Browning, American director who specialized in films of the grotesque and macabre. He was known for his association with silent star Lon Chaney and for his proclivity for outre fantasy and horror pictures—notably Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, and the cult classic Freaks (1932).
4 days ago · The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun, which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7
5 days ago · The history of the 1911 is well known. Developed by John Browning, the Colt 1911 and the .45 ACP cartridge developed to go with it were the result of the US Army needing a more powerful sidearm. The M1892 Colt Revolver chambered in .38 Long Colt in use at the turn of the 20th Century was not powerful enough to stop a determined opponent.
