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Browning Firearms: John Browning
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The History of Browning Firearms is a captivating and wonderfully illustrated chronicle of one of the most influential and legendary names in gunsmithing history. John M. Browning was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1855, into a world of gunsmithing. His father was a gunsmith who was already well known for a number of innovations in the field. As a young boy, John spent hours in his father’s shop and allegedly knew the name of every part of a gun before he could read. It’s hardly surprising that at age twenty-three, he was filing his first patent for the “J. M. Browning Single-Shot Rifle.” He inherited his father’s business, and with funds of less than a thousand dollars turned it into a thriving gun-making workshop with seven employees.
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One of the attributes of genius which characterized John M. Browning was his ability to create many separate and distinctly different firearms designs almost simultaneously. In the peak years of his incredible productivity, from about 1890 to 1910, he worked on new mechanisms for application to machine guns, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, as well as semi-automatic pistols in both large calibers for military and police use and small calibers for sporting and self-defense handguns. The firearms he designed in his small shop in Ogden included lever-action repeating rifles and shotguns, slide-action repeaters (called trombones), and both full automatic and semi-automatic types.
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The Jonathan Browning home and gunsmith shop is a marvelous example of the work of historical restoration in Nauvoo. Located on the east side of Main Street just south of Munson Street, it is open to visitors. Jonathan and his son, John Moses Browning, were key to developing Browning firearms.
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Both the Lightweight and Renaissance models were adopted by Browning Arms Co. as standard catalog items. A prototype Lightweight model, No. 124402, was made up by FN and submitted to Browning for sales evaluation in 1953. This piece has the satin-silver-colored frame made of Hiduminium (an alloy developed by Rolls-Royce of England for aircraft application). The steel slide and other exterior steel components are blued. According to John V. Browning, (Val A. Browning’s eldest son who was the company’s president at the time), the sample was not approved for production, and the example in the author’s collection is unique. A skeptic, especially if he were interested in acquiring this delectable collectible might say, “Anyone can put a blue slide on an alloy frame!” true, but this piece is authenticated by the factory marked serial number on both frame and slide.
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The product line included the John M. Browning collection, Field and Game series, and sporting and waterfowl lines. The line has grown to include Kangaroo leather boots, Rubber boots and waders, and upland game boots. [1]
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FN ... produced the Models 1900, 1903, 1906, 1910, and High Power or P35 of Browning design. John Browning’s influence in gun design in Europe is so great that the word “browning” is defined as any semi-auto pistol.
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