![]() John Moses Browning was born in 1855 in Ogden, Utah as one of his Mormon father’s 22 children. There’s a lot to cover here, so there will be three separate parts to this article: I’ll also provide some brief background on the life and times of this very private man. For this reason I will look at Browning’s pistol designs chronologically including highlighting developments and mentioning any currently available replicas. Browning’s pistol designs developed incrementally until the Colt 1911 by which time he had introduced all the features which would be used in almost every later semi-automatic pistol. If you look at virtually any current semi-automatic weapon you will see a method of operation and features that were all originally designed by Browning.īrowning also designed a single revolver, the Colt M1905 New Marine, but it’s his semi-automatic pistols that I’ll be looking at in these articles. Browning wasn’t the only gun designer to work on what was known as the self-loading pistol in the late nineteenth century, but his ideas persisted long after those of contemporaries such as Georg Luger and Hugo Borchardt had been forgotten. However, it is his pistol designs that I want to look at in this series of articles. He designed a whole list of immensely popular and long-lived rifles, shotguns, machine guns and even an automatic rifle. It probably wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call John Moses Browning the most influential and prolific firearms designer of the 20th Century despite the fact that he died in 1926.
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