John Moses Browning was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. He
Browning, c. 1915
Browning Brothers gun shop, Ogden, Utah Territory, 1882. From left to right: Thomas Samuel Browning, George Emmett Browning, John Moses Browning, Matthew Sandefur Browning, Jonathan Edmund Browning, and Frank Rushton
Browning seated with a M1907 machine gun
The M2 machine gun or Browning.50-caliber machine gun is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun, whi
John Browning
…to automatic cannon development. Browning's most successful designs include the M1911 pistol, the water-cooled M1917, the air-cooled M1919, and heavy M2 machine guns, the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Browning Auto-5 – the first semi-automatic shotgun. Some of these arms are still manufactured…
M2E2 with a quick change barrel and tripod
A U.S. Marine mans a .50-caliber machine gun as part of a security force during a training exercise with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in November 2002.
Twin M2HB machine gun during a pre-action calibration fire (PACFIRE) exercise in May 2005
M2 with blank-firing adapter