If I am going to discuss the M1911,
then I must introduce the genius of its design and several other
types of firearms – pistols, shotguns, rifles, and machine guns.
John Moses Browning, January
23
rd 1855 to November 26
th 1926 was born in
Ogden, Utah and was an American firearms designer who developed
military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms that
are still used around the world. When it comes to automatic and
semi-automatic firearms, he is still the king with 128 firearm
patents credited to his name. He made his firearm at the age of 13 in
his father's gun shop, and was awarded his first patent on October
7
th 1879 at the age of 24. Browning was a great influence
in almost all categories of firearm design, inventing or improving
the single-shot, lever-action, and slide-action rifles and shotguns;
as well as pistol bolts and shrouds and pistol slides. He developed
the first gas-operated machine gun, the Colt-Browning Model 1895. He
also designed the M1911 pistol, the Browning Hi Power pistol, the
Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and
the Browning Auto-5 that was an original semi-automatic shotgun. Most
of these firearms are still produced today with some minor changes
and cosmetics and his guns are the most copied in the world. See his
full biography at
Wikipedia.
