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Our American Stories

John Moses Browning: The Mormon Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6816 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, John Moses Browning invented the mechanism used in virtually all modern pistols, created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns, and conceived the machine guns introduced in World War I. Here's his story.

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Few people are aware of that John Moses Browning, a tall, modest man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West, invented the mechanism used in virtually all modern pistols. He created the most popular

1:05.7

hunting rifles and shotguns and conceived the machine guns introduced in World War I and which dominated

1:12.7

air and land battles in World War II.

1:16.4

Nathan Gorinstein, author of The Guns of John Moses Browning, is here to tell the story of

1:22.5

this little-known American legend whose impact on history ranks right there with the Wright brothers, Thomas

1:29.7

Edison and Henry Ford.

1:34.0

This is a story about the most important American inventor. Most of your listeners have never

1:39.2

heard of. We grow up knowing about Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Henry Ford.

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