Posted November 25, 2019 11:44 pm by Comments

By Logan Metesh

John Moses Browning

Boston, MA – -(Ammoland.com) – On November 26, 1926, John Moses Browning passed away in Liege, Belgium, at the age of 71.

Hailed today as the greatest arms inventor of all time, John came by his profession honestly: his father Jonathan was also a gunsmith, and it was in his father’s shop that John began tinkering with guns at a young age. Overshadowed by his son’s achievements, Jonathan was actually quite the designer himself. He created an early repeating rifle with a horizontal “harmonica” magazine – one of the first of its kind.

By the time John Moses was in his early 20s, he partnered with his brothers and created their own arms manufacturing company.

In 1879, John received a patent for a single-shot rifle. Once production began in earnest, it was an almost instant success in and around their local Utah community. Unfortunately, his father Jonathan died that same year, without ever seeing the tremendous success his son would achieve.

Within a few years, one of those guns had made its way east and into the hands of Thomas Gray Bennett, the Vice President of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. He quickly purchased the manufacturing rights …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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