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American gunmaker, the authentic biography of the man who invented pistols, rifles, and shotguns for winchester, remington, colt, fabrique nationale, and others. Browning lived and where the genius of all of his greatest firearms inventions began. Browning, american gunmaker is the authentic biography of the man many have called the worlds greatest gun inventor a 100page photographically illustrated technical section describes all john m. I havent finished it yet, but the first part of the book is a very interesting history of john m browning s father and their journey to utah. Browning was granted his first patent in 1879 for a fallingblock rifle called the browning single. I m looking for a copy and suggestions on wheretolook would be appreciated. Reviewed in the united states on november 22, 2015. This fact alone is testimony that john moses browning got it right with this design, just as hed got it right for so many of his previous firearm designs. He fathered 22 children, including john moses browning, and raised two stepdaughters with his wife elizabeth caroline clark. John moses browning born in january 23, 1855 in ogden, utah and died in november 21, 1926 in herstal, belgium, was an american firearms designer who developed a wide variety of weapons, cartridges, and firearm mechanisms, many of which are used in the u. This browning special edition vintage 25gun safe is built in honor of john moses browning, the most influential firearms designer of the 20th century.
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