Browning did not make ammunition. They contracted another company to make it for them.
They haven't. Special orders are still an option.
You need a gunsmith.
They haven't.
Unsure of your meaning of "break away shotgun". If you mean breakdown shotguns like double barrels they continue to make several different models.
Lack of demand
they just stop making shells for them, used as market guns to shoot large flocks of birds, for the local farmers markets. game laws probably put them down in the 1950's.
Not enough profit.
who makes the westernfield model m550a 12ga shotgun
The Standard Sporting Clays 425 was made from 1995-2001
The last year for the solid rib barrel in a auto-5 shotgun was 1975.
1999,Browning stopped importing fully made and assembled in Belguim made auto-5 shotguns in the year 1976.While some were still mde in Belguim in later years,these guns were assembled in Portugal.Browning began importation of there auto-5 shotguns from Miroku of Japan in late 1976.
Some guns still are made there. Production started to shift to Japan in 1977