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John M. Browning Firearms Museum

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John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
John M. Browning Firearms Museum
Phone:
+1 801-393-9890

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


John Moses Browning was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms – many of which are still in use around the world. He made his first firearm at age 10 in his father's gun shop, and was awarded the first of his 128 firearm patents on October 7, 1879, at the age of 24. He is regarded as one of the most successful firearms designers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and pioneered the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms.Browning influenced nearly all categories of firearms design. He invented, or made significant improvements to, single-shot, lever-action, and pump-action rifles and shotguns. Arguably, his most significant contributions were in the area of autoloading firearms. He developed the first reliable and compact autoloading pistols by inventing the telescoping bolt, then integrating the bolt and barrel shroud into what is known as the pistol slide. Browning's telescoping bolt design is now found on nearly every modern semi-automatic pistol, as well as several modern fully automatic weapons. He also developed the first gas-operated firearm, the Colt–Browning Model 1895 machine gun – a system that surpassed mechanical recoil operation to become the standard for most high-power self-loading firearm designs worldwide. He also made significant contributions to automatic cannon development. Browning's most successful designs include the M1911 pistol, the Browning Hi Power pistol, the water-cooled M1917, the air-cooled M1919, and heavy M2 machine guns, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Browning Auto-5 – the first semi-automatic shotgun. Some of these arms are still manufactured, often with only minor changes in detail and cosmetics to those assembled by Browning or his licensees. His guns are some of the most copied firearms in the world.
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