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John Browning Research Paper

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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. …show more content…

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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