Popular John M. Browning Firearm Designs – 1885 to 1926
Morgan, UT –-(Ammoland.com)- Without doubt, John M Browning was the world’s foremost designer of firearms.
While other designers also made extremely significant contributions to firearms design and production, those designed John M. Browning have seen longer and wider service than any other guns in history.
He was granted more than 100 patents during his lifetime and many of his designs, like the 1911 pistol, continue to be the design of choice in competition, law enforcement and the military.
The Browning 1911 was just another revolutionary gun by one of the greatest gun designers of all time, John Moses Browning, the founder of today’s Browning Arms Company.
His major firearms designs included:
Single-Shot Rifle:
- Winchester 1885
Bolt-Action Rifle:
- Winchester 1900
Lever-Action Rifles:
- Winchester 1886
- Winchester 1892
- Winchester 1894
- Winchester 1895
Slide-Action Rifles:
- Winchester 1890
Recoil-Operated Semi-Automatic Rifles:
- Remington Model 8 and 81
Blowback-Operated Semi-Automatic Rifles:
- Browning 22 Semi-auto
Double-Barrel Shotgun:
- Browning Superposed
Lever-Action Shotgun:
- Winchester 1887
Slide-Action Shotguns:
- Winchester 1897
- Remington Model 17 (later the Ithaca 37)
- Stevens 520
Recoil-Operated Semi-Automatic Shotguns:
- Browning Auto 5 / Remington Model 11
Blowback-Operated Semi-Automatic Pistols:
- FN M1900
- Colt 1903/1908 Pocket Hammerless
- FN 1906 Vest Pocket/Colt 1908 Vest Pocket
- FN 1910
- Colt Woodsman .22
Recoil-Operated Semi-Automatic Pistols:
- Colt 1902
- Colt 1903 Pocket Hammer
- U.S. M1911
- FN G.P. 35 Hi Power
Gas-Operated Machine Guns:
- Colt M1895
- U.S. M1918 BAR
Recoil-Operated Machine Guns:
- U.S. M1917/M1919
- U.S. M2 Heavy Machine Gun
Automatic Machine Cannon:
- Colt Browning 37mm
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