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.
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
Family Members
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Sarah Ann Browning Galliher
1827–1901
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David Elias Browning
1829–1901
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Barbara Jane Browning Stewart
1830–1898
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John Wesley Browning
1832–1913
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James Allen Browning
1833–1902
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Asenath Elizabeth Browning Carling
1835–1899
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Martha Clarissa Browning Middleton
1837–1930
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Mary Melvina Browning Garner
1840–1931
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Nancy Lavina Browning Stewart
1842–1875
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Emma Eliza Browning
1843–1843
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Jonathan Alma Browning
1845–1913
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Mary Elizabeth Weir Stewart
1846–1926
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Melinda Vesta Browning Middleton
1847–1926
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Nancy Weir Reese
1850–1915
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Jonathan Edmund Browning
1859–1939
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Thomas Samuel Browning
1860–1943
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Olive Ann Browning Wallace
1863–1933
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George Emmett Browning
1866–1948
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Benjamin Franklin Browning
1868–1869
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Susan Oetta Browning
1870–1880
Flowers
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