What is John Moses Browning?
[[File:JohnBrowning.jpeg|thumb|upright|Browning in his later years]] '''John Moses Browning''' (January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926) was an [[Americans|American]] [[gun]] maker who [[Invention|invented]] many guns used by Americans, both by the [[military]] and [[civilian]]s. He was born in [[Ogden, Utah]] in 1855 and died in [[Belgium]] in 1926 of [[heart failure]], aged 71. He was a [[Mormonism|Mormon]] and the [[son]] of his [[Father|father's]] second [[wife]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Tales of the Gun: John Browning|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PdlxerEq70|access-date=2019-08-17|language=en}}</ref> He invented the repeating shotgun and made shotguns like the [[Winchester Model 1887]], [[Winchester Model 1897|Model 1897]], and [[Browning Auto-5]]. He invented pistols like the [[Browning Hi-Power]] and the [[M1911 pistol|M1911]]. He invented [[machine gun]]s like the [[M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle|BAR]], the [[M1917 Browning machine gun|M1917]], the [[M1919 Browning machine gun|M1919]], and the [[M2 Browning|M2]] .50 caliber machine gun. Some of Browning's gun models are still used by the [[Military of the United States|US military]] today, including the M1911 and the M2. ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Browning, John Moses}} [[Category:1855 births]] [[Category:1926 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from heart failure]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Utah]] [[Category:People from Ogden, Utah]]