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The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World (Nathan Gorenstein)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Browning's Guns

The fame of the 18 86 rifle in particular was helped by its use in two famous 18 92 events, the johnson county war between cattle ranchers and homesteaders. Browning's fertile mind kept producing new ideas at basically the same rate, even at an accelerated rate, throughout his life. In 18 89, he designed the first gas powered repeating gun, which blood gas from one rounds firing to reset the action for the next shot. This principle is the basis of nearly all repeating rifles to day, though not of most hand guns. More than two million of these guns were produced over the next few decades.

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