Everyone who has ever been hunting or fought with the U.S. Armed Forces has benefited from John Browning – and chances are they don’t even know it! John Browning’s company holds 128 patents for 80 different kinds of weapons, and he started it all out of his little shop in Ogden. His gun inventions and improvements were so good that from World War I through the Korean War, the U.S. Armed Forces wouldn’t put a gun made by anyone else in the hands of a U.S. soldier.
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Son of a gunsmith.
John liked guns since he was a kid. In fact, he started to make guns with his father when he was only six. His father was a gunsmith in Nauvoo, Illinois, and he had come west with the Mormons in 1852.
John made his own first gun at age 10. It didn’t have a trigger, and you had to pour gunpowder into the barrel for every shot. He made the gun out of scraps from the shop’s garbage pile, and he didn’t tell his father until after he had finished. He and his brother Matt tested it out by firing at prairie chickens—and brought the chickens home to the family for dinner that night.
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By 14, John was making shotguns with triggers, and at 23, he’d invented a lever that popped the used-up cartridge out of the gun and put a new one in its place. That meant that a shooter didn’t have to stop a reload the gun every time he or she fired it.
Winchester Arms, a famous gun company from Connecticut, heard about this important invention and paid John Browning $8,000 dollars for the patent. He developed new kinds of guns for Winchester for 19 more years, including the 30-30 Carbine, and then he branched out into working with companies like Remington, Colt, and a Belgian company called Fabrique Nationale de Guerre in Liege.
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His wife never once believed him when he said it must've been an animal or something. “The stock gave evidence of alarm by their unusual conduct; the dogs barked continuously”(Lively, 2008). John and his family were scared but the Indians did not fear hardly anything especially did not fear anyone. Even though John has a rifle and two dogs he is nothing compared to a tribe of Indians. Lively began to second guess himself on the safety of his himself his children and his wife.
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They moved to New England and one of the first things he did was bought three guns. One he kept in the glove compartment, on under his pillow, and one he kept with him at all times. He said he needed them to feel safe because he was dramatized from the
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"Battleground America," written by Jill Lepore, provides a strong history of guns and the way they have changed in the eyes of the American through the years. She proves her point with strong evidence throughout her article, sprinkling it with opinion and argument that is strongly supported. She presents her argument to convince her audience that the open availability of guns allows citizens to undeservingly purchase them by displaying the credibility in her sources, using negative connotations in her speech, and the strength and objectivity only a strong logos appeal can provide.
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A firearm is a very complex tool that has grown in s verbal ways over several years, each version better than the last, all of which changing the world in a new way.All across the world and across several eras firearms have been used, firearms have also been the reason for wars and laws, as a very important part of our history it is appropriate that several facts are clearly stated.Back in the Han dynasty, under the leadership of emperor Wu Di, gunpowder was discovered. This particular document will include such topics such as the one previously stated and early firing systems and other weapons, also a brief history of military issued pistols through America's history and your rights as an american citizen to bear arms. Firearms, from early
Introduction In 1836, Samuel Colt introduced his Colt Pearson revolver to the world. This moment changed the course of history and made a legend of both the man and his product. Though the invention of the revolver did have an enormous impact on society, was it for the better? Did it bring peace as the name one model suggests, the Colt Peacemaker, or did it bring death and destruction?
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They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
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