![]() ![]() ![]() When Winchester wouldn’t let Browning have the royalties on the Auto-5, the inventor took the design to Fabrique Nationale in Belgium, which was delighted to produce the gun. His first patent for a “Recoil Operated Firearm” was filed May 6, 1899. ![]() It is much harder to imagine Browning not thinking of an invention for two years. It is easy to imagine the idea for the Auto-5 taking hold in Browning’s fertile mind while he was engaged in his missionary work. Upon his return to Ogden, Utah, he began work on an invention that would eventually become known as the Auto-5 shotgun. The true measure of Browning’s genius is that he not only created firearm designs that are still being produced today in forms virtually unchanged from the original, but that the design principles he engineered are found in almost every successful semi-automatic firearm to this day.īeginning in early 1897, John Moses Browning devoted two years of his life to missionary work for the Mormon Church. John Moses Browning is perhaps the most prolific and best-known gun designer who ever lived. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. This article, "The Legendary A5", appeared originally in the June 2004 issue of American Rifleman. ![]()
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