“TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN M. BROWNING 1855-1926. This is the place where, thirty years previously, he came from Ogden to have his first automatic pistol manufactured and where, on the twenty-sixth of November, 1926, while he was busily engaged at work, death overtook the greatest firearms inventor the world has ever known.”

– English translation of a bronze plaque hanging in the
Fabrique National d’Armes de Guerre factory in Liege, Belgium.

John Moses Browning is one of, if not the, greatest gun designer to have ever lived. …

guns designed (working list):

• Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911
• Browning 22 Semi-auto
• Browning Auto 5
• Browning Automatic Rifle, Cal. 30, M1918
• Browning Hi Power (partially)
• Browning Superposed
• Colt 1903
• Colt 1908 Pocket Hammerless
• Colt 1908 Vest Pocket
• Colt Browning 37mm
• Colt M1895
• Colt Model 1902
• Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer
• Colt Woodsman .22
• FN 1906 Vest Pocket
• FN 1910
• FN G.P. 35 Hi Power
• FN M1900
• Machine Gun, Cal. 30, Browning M1917
• Machine Gun, Cal. 30, Browning M1919
• Machine Gun, Cal. 50, Browning M2, Heavy Barrel
• Remington Model 11
• Remington Model 17 (later the Ithaca 37)
• Remington Model 8
• Remington Model 81
• Stevens Model 520
• Winchester Model 1885
• Winchester Model 1886
• Winchester Model 1887
• Winchester Model 1890
• Winchester Model 1892
• Winchester Model 1894
• Winchester Model 1895
• Winchester Model 1897
• Winchester Model 1900

cartridges designed (working list):

• .25 Automatic (aka: .25 ACP, .25 Automatic Colt Pistol, .25 Auto)
• .32 ACP
• .38 ACP
• .380 ACP
• .45 ACP
• .50 BMG
• 9mm Browning Long

patents (working list):

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related:

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Footnotes / Sources:

Browning, John, Curt Gentry, and W. R. Betz. John M. Browning, American Gunmaker: An Illustrated Biography of the Man and His Guns. 2nd ed. N.p.: Browning, 1994. Print.