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He fathered 22 children and had two stepdaughters; prominent among them was the gun designer John Moses Browning, who became one of the most important figures in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms; and Matthew Sandefur Browning (1859 – 1923), co-founder of Browning Brothers.
In 1814 a flintlock harmonica gun was patented by James Thomson. [6]According to Clive Scott Chisholm in Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream and Louis A Garavaglia & Charles G. Worman in Firearms of the American West: 1803-1865 the slide gun was independently invented by a Mormon gunsmith called Nicanor Kendall in 1838 and it was from this gunsmith that Browning got ...
The company was founded in Ogden, Utah, in 1878 by brothers John Moses Browning (1855–1926) and Matthew Sandefur Browning (1859–1923). The company offers a wide variety of firearms, including shotguns, rifles, and pistols. Other products include fishing rods and reels, gun safes, sport bows, knives and bicycles. [1]
He developed his first rifle, a single-shot falling block action design while he was still his father's apprentice, then, in 1878, in partnership with his younger brother, co-founded John Moses and Matthew Sandefur Browning Company, later renamed Browning Arms Company. The company began producing the brothers' designs and other non-military ...
[5] 1,000 rifles seized by French security forces aboard the Libyan arms freighter Eksund in 1987. IRA believed to still have approximately 650 AK-47/AKM rifles in inventory in 1992. [20] Vz. 58: 7.62×39mm: Assault rifle Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Libya: Large haul of vz.58 rifles found in intercepted Libyan arms shipments in 1970s. [35]
Jonathan Browning may refer to: Jonathan Browning (designer) , American interior designer and business executive Jonathan Browning (inventor) (1805–1879), American inventor and gunmaker
New England Small Arms Corporation was a consortium of small manufacturers who coordinated their facilities for production of M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles during World War II. The company was an unusual variation of United States conversion of small manufacturing plants from civilian goods to military armaments production.
His grandfather, Jonathan Browning, opened a gun shop in Ogden in 1852. [2] His father, John Browning, is regarded as one of the most successful firearms designers of the 19th and 20th centuries. [2] Browning graduated from Ogden High School in 1913 and later studied law and engineering at Cornell University. [3]