Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-30
j. M. BROWNING PERFECTs
ANOTHER RAPIn-FIRE GUN

The name Browning Is familiar
one in this part OF the west, and that
name has become known as one be-
longing to family Of people who do
things. They are a Utah family,
which has branched out into Idaho
and other western places, and where
ever they go the name Browning
stands for something.
At the present time 1t is one Of the
biggest names internationally, owing
to the fact that the Browning ma
chine gun is the handy little nipple
ment in the hands of the American
boys in France that is to be large
contributing factor In winning the
war.
j. M. Browning of Ogden 10 to the
fre-arm world what Edison is to the
electrical world-both wizards in
their respective fields.
A story published in Hartford
(Connecticut) paper has the follow
ing to say of the western genius:
Hartford. Conn, Nov. 17.-"Weli,
Old j. Nd. has done 1t again"
That In the chief topic of CONVEX
sation these days in the big shops of
Hartford, New Haven and Bridge
port, where the bulk of the rifles,
pistols and machine guns for Uncle
Sans army is, being turned out.
For in these towns to say that "Old
j. M has done 1t again" Is the sim
plest and most direct way of stating
that John M. Browning has invented
a new kind of firearm.
This time. however, "Old J. M"
has done It twice, he has invented not
one, but two new guns. Both have
been accepted by the United States
government, contracts for immense
numbers of each have been signed,
and work of production is being
pushed night and day. The new
weapons will be put into the field
against Germany at the earliest pos
BibIe day.
Who is John Browning? You never
heard OF him?
Well. Browning Is, the father OF
rapid-fire and automatic firearms. His
Is the brain behind practically every
basic small firearm invention In the
past forty years. He has been to the
development of firearms what Edison
has been to electricity.
aUnqestionably the greatest inven-
tor of firearms IN the world" 10 the
unanimous verdict of the gun experts
of the Colt. Remington and Winches-
ter plants, whose business 1t Ia to
study and criticise every development
of firearms.
But IL Browning Is our greatest
gun inventor, he is the most gun
shy genius in the country when 1t
comes to publicity. He would rath-
er face a machine gun than reporter
A few years ago paper IN his
home -utah--published little
story about his success az an inven-
tor, and the story was copied by the
Hartford Courant
.T,d rather have paid 81 1000 cash
than had that stun printed" Brown
ing says.
Friends. however, who believe that
the world should know something
about this firearms wizard. furnished
the following sidelights on his ca
reer:
Browning comes from an pld-stock
Mormon family of Ogden. Utah. He
was only "a when he worked out his
ideas for a gun carrying magazine
full of cartridges, which could be
fired rapidly in succession. He pound
ed out the parts for his first rapid-fre
gun with hammer and cold chiseI.
Since that time pump and from
bone shotguns, automatic pistols,
rapid-fire rifles produced by the Dig
geHt firearms manufacturers IN the
country have been Browning products
The United States army pistol is q
Browning invention.
a Browning pistol manufactured
by the Fabrique Rationale OF Bel
ginm was made the standard equip
rfaa1lt for the armies of Belgium, Rus
sia. Spain, italy and Serbia.
On completion OF the one-millionth
pistol BY the Fabrique Rationale.