John Moses Browning

Browning, John Moses (1855-1926) American inventor, born in Ogden, Utah. Browning was the leading American designer of automatic arms in the early 20th century. Browning patented a breech-loading single-shot rifle (1879) and a gas-operated Colt machine gun (1895), and designed firearms for Colt, Winchester, Stevens, and Remington gunmakers. He was the inventor of the Browning automatic pistol (1911; standard issue until the 1980s), the Browning machine gun (1917), and the automatic rifle, or BAR (1918).

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American firearms inventor whose designs include repeating rifles, automatic pistols, and a machine gun dubbed “the Peacemaker” that was used in the Spanish-American War and adapted for aerial warfare in World War I.

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Meaning #1: United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called `The Peacemaker') (1855-1926)
  Synonyms: Browning, John M. Browning