The following is a letter to Colt’s Patent Firearms Company from Matthew S. Browning, dated Nov. 22, 1890: We have just completed our new automatic machine gun & thought we would write to you to ...

John Moses Browning actually created the gas-operated self-loading firearm with his development of what would become known as the Colt Model 1895 "Potato Digger" machine gun. Noticing the ...

Colt 1895 Automatic Machine Gun With the help of his brother Matthew, John Browning developed a gas-operating system that was first used in the Colt-Browning M1895 machine gun—a weapon that ...

His military designs include the Colt M1911 .45 pistol, the Browning Hi-Power, the M1917 water-cooled machine gun, the M1919 air-cooled machine gun and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR).

45-caliber weapon for the purpose, so Colt turned to its designer ... three Browning Automatic Rifles. The Browning M1919 is the all-purpose machine gun used by the United States (and other ...

1867: Company begins production of the Gatling semiautomatic machine gun. 1891: Colt Firearms begins working with John Moses Browning. The pairing produces several famous guns over the years ...

For my own Colorado, I’ll go with the Colt-Browning M1895 gas-operated machine gun, used to shoot down striking miners at Ludlow in 1914. Designation as the Official State Firearm would remind ...

Browning, was a machine gun instructor in the U.S. and France during ... the pistol replaced the smaller and less powerful .38 Caliber Long Colt revolvers. The .45 had better stopping power ...

50 caliber Machine Gun and the Browning Auto-5 Shotgun ... The second round of tests in 1907 left only two: the Savage and the Browning designed Colt for further review. The Army Ordinance ...

Invented in 1921, the M2 still serves as the standard heavy machine gun of the U.S. armed ... 45 Automatic Colt Pistol round, also designed by John Browning, was developed in response to the ...

The Browning M2 machine gun, known as “Ma Deuce,” is one of the most iconic and widely used weapons in modern military ...