RE: [DL] Two questions

["Heivilin, Jim" <banzai@missouri.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Coburn [mailto:coburn@sympatico.ca]
> Subject: [DL] Two questions
> 
> 1. People keep mentioning a Browning firearm.  Which one is 
> this, since as far as I knew John Browning didn't work his 
> magic quite yet?  (Where will I find rules for it, also?)
> 
John Moses Browning was born in 1855 in Ogden Utah and according to my
sources had invented his first firearm at the tender age of 13 (which would
make it 1868).  

Jim
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Browning, John Moses
b. Jan. 21, 1855, Ogden, Utah, U.S.
d. Nov. 26, 1926, Herstal, Belg. 
U.S. designer of small arms and automatic weapons, best known for his
automatic rifle. 

Inventive as a child, Browning made his first gun at the age of 13 in his
father's gun shop. In 1879 he patented a single-shot rifle, which he and his
brother Matthew sold to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. His later
designs were produced by the Colt, Remington, Stevens, and Winchester arms
companies, seldom with his name attached. All of his designs were
commercially successful. 

The Browning automatic rifle was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1918 and used
until the late 1950s. From about 1920 until the 1950s the U.S. armed forces
used Browning-designed automatic weapons almost exclusively: .30- and
.50-calibre machine guns, in several modifications for air, naval, and land
use; the .45-calibre auto-loading pistol; and the 37-millimetre automatic
cannon for aircraft. 

He designed many types of sporting firearms as well, notably the
over-and-under double-barreled shotgun made in Belgium. 
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