The list of firearms he designed is amazing. John M. Browning Firearm Designs – 1885 to 1926
Click thru for the complete list, starting with the Winchester 1885 single shot rifle, and various lever-action guns for Winchester in the 1890s.
A few of the guns he designed.
A history lesson dealing with the creation of firearms that have been in use for 100 years and more. My Daily Kona: Thinking in Three Dimensions, The Genius of John Moses Browning.
Exactly how a Browning idea became a working firearm had never been fully understood.
It can be now, thanks to documents from the 1900s when one of Browning’s rare design failures ensnared him a lengthy patent dispute with Georg Luger, who developed the German slant-grip pistol that became the favorite souvenir of World War I doughboys and World War II GIs.
Click thru. You might learn something. (It will only hurt for a minute!)
The photo is of Browning's most iconic firearm, the 1911, though it is a modern version of his design.
For a rundown on exactly what he created see this 2011 post from Tam: Hats off, please...
It would not be an exaggeration to divide the world of metallic cartridge firearms to the periods "Before Browning" and "After Browning". This is the guy who invented the slide on the automatic pistol.
