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

and which dominated air and land battles in World War II.

Nathan Gorinstein, author of The Guns of John Moses Browning,

is here to tell the story of this little-known American legend

whose impact on history ranks right there with the Wright brothers, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.

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

We grow up knowing about Thomas Edison,

the Wright brothers, Henry Ford. But missing from that list is another fellow, I'd suggest

should be on it, John Moses Brownie, who was born in 1855 on the far edge of the American

West. He died in 1926 in the offices of an industrial complex in Europe

that was created in the basis of his inventions. What did he do? He's the guy whose machines

started World War I and won World War II and influenced America and the world to this day.

Who am I?

My name's Nathan Gorinstein.

I've spent a career as a newspaper reporter and editor and now book author.

And I got interested in Browning when I was researching firearms for another book and I

realized that this guy had changed the world.

But no one had ever written a serious biography of him.

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