John Moses Browning (1855-1926) - Find a Grave Memorial

Inventor. Born in Ogden, Utah, he was a renowned gunsmith making his first gun from scrap metal when he was thirteen. He patented his first weapon, a breech-loading single-shot rifle in 1879 and began work on an automatic machine gun in the 1890s. In 1895, his invention of the Browning machine-gun was purchased by the US Navy. The first automatic pistol designed by Browning was the .32 caliber Model 1900, followed by his most noted design the .45 ACP M1911 Government Model and Browning High-Power Model P-35 in 9mm Parabellum. In 1910, he produced a new 0.30-inch water cooled machine-gun and in 1917, 57,000 of these guns were produced for soldiers fighting on the Western Front during World War I. He also produced the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) which fired a 20 round magazine. Over 52,000 of these guns were purchased by the US Army as a support weapon for the light machine-gun which were used during World War II, Korean War and in the Vietnam War.

Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith