The Mormon Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World

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This is a story about the most important American event. Most of this is we grow up knowing about Thomas Edison) and the Ford list is not a fellow I suggest should be on John Moses was born in 1855 in the far edge of the American West died in 1926 in the offices of an industrial competence in your that was created in the base of his inventions. What do you think I machines started World War I in one World War II and influence in America and the world to this day my my name is Nathan Borenstein. I've spent a career as a newspaper reporter and editor and now book author and I got interested in Browning when I was researching firearms for another book. And I realized that this guy had changed the world, but no one ever written a serious prerogative. If you go online there are tens of thousands of books, articles, videos about his firearms, which is ubiquitous and most of you know know them under the names of cold Winchester savage Remington and Yanira from Greek nationality. I can say that French but all those products didn't come from the minds of engineers in those companies came from the sky from Utah who was born before the telegraph reached his so he was a tall man over 6 feet. He was balding and he was unknown outside the world of gun manufacturing into World War I when America entered the war and Americans finally learn that there boys husband's son's brothers going to go to war with the weapons invented by one guy who they had never heard. So who was his fellow while he was born in Ogden Utah when it was a Mormon town is father had three wives.

He and his brother Matt was important to John Bronner's career were the offspring of the Second Life dear father Jonathan Brunning was a blacksmith and gunsmith and so John went to work. This is the printer after Rossi went to work early.

He was at work in his father's shop at five years old. This is an 1860 and for the next 15 years. He got what amounted to a PhD in mechanical engineering environments decide because his father's shop is located next to one of the major Pioneer trails heading west and over the years he sucked every kind of firearm imaginable that he had a fix repair. They built some themselves. So he he had a really like in any sport you see somebody do something in their really good and you realize that when this are good because they were doing it for five years old when he was so good because he was doing it from a tiny age, but he had one other advantage that most of us use in a very basic level. Every day is called special recognition, spatial rotation and so we use it every day. When we pack a suitcase to figure how things go inside we look at a map and we have to figure how to get somewhere, but Brunning's great gift was that he could think in three dimensions.

So think of a Rubik's cube.

It's it's six sided thing with all these colored cubes and you have to rotate them so they line up while most of us find it really hard to do. Brunning is the kind of guy because of his mental skills he could've done that in his head and cried unto with the at the same time he never used blueprints.

He didn't do working drawings didn't have a computer. He didn't have a slide he had his head is his granddaughter who's 90s now told me a great story told to her by her mother about the elderly Brunning sitting in a chair at night in their house. Tapping on his head. I was at a time used to drive the mother crazy what he was doing was thinking through ideas so you come up with an idea for firearm. He would make a couple of rough sketches, sort of like his own nose at no one else could read and then he would cut out templates that pieces of metal cardboard if you would work in his hands to see how they would interact and then he and his brother's half brothers get a big family, many of them help the business standby basic metalworking machines and make proper at the time. Writing would tell it.

This is sick of this is smaller and they would design enormously complicated metal machines to thousands of an inch tolerances and send them off to factories in the east, which would then make the didn't used blueprints. It was just a made a gun they would test it would work. You can see them exams now across the country and they look like industrial produced weapons, but they were made in the small workshop in Ogden, Utah by John Brunning and his brothers out Browning was reluctant to start designing weapons because he thought I was inventing things to get.

He's out of the Western frontier where it is sort of in the middle of nowhere and inventing things were done by the great industrial companies back east, and he felt he was coming. He didn't want to do and his father had a question to do it. One of the things that encouraged him was that he got married to Rachel and he had a supportive family as a quick aside, Brunning was interested in the plural marriage. Rachel wasn't in the story line is that when Brunning suggested it to her.

She said over your dead body but Sunnyside inventing guns, Rachel King, which would have 10 kids. By the way, and then a fire made its way to Winchester, which which was stymied waitress was famous for its very original lever action rifles, but they were trying to develop a better gun and the in-house guys couldn't do it.

And then one other salesman shows up with this really simple but effective high-powered hunting rifle. The exact kind of thing that people couldn't make as they wanted to handle the major military contractor, high-powered military concert so they buy it from Brunning, the head of the company. On his way to San Francisco on business stops in Utah and buys it for $8000. The rights to make the weapon.

But Winchester realizes in Brunning they have the real deal, because he has other ideas and shows one of which becomes the most famous second most famous lever action rifle in the world is a guy that put unheard of some of $50,000 which was a huge amount of money to get all these guns are being made Winchester's name, knowing the public knows who's designing sirens. Brunning doesn't work for Winchester with the South. Each of the two, the company for a set sum of money or else goods to be sold in the sporting goods store that his brother operates in Ogden. So Brunning creates the Winchester rifle company because at that point they have one old lever action gun so he prays for the single shot rifle lever action rifle lever action shotgun pump action shotguns and then he designed the most popular hunting rifle in America. Probably the Winchester 3030 lever action rifle still make today over 6 million have been sold and people say it's the rifle and it's taken more deer than the rifle in America, but he was really just getting started and you been listening to author Nathan Borenstein tell the story of John Moses Browning, the man who designed the guns. The firearms that were used in World War I and World War II. Ultimately allowed us to win World War II. Also, the rifles and shotguns that were used to defend ourselves and hunt the man who had the ideas, the became the gun. By the way, we love to talk about our founders and how they protected intellectual property rights with the patent in article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. That's how forward thinking they were when we come back. The story of John Moses Browning dear on our American stories we find the material family-friendly section of modern outside can enjoy conversation for little over half the essentials to make your home phone lunch, not fabulous in-store Ashley.com today need life insurance but have diabetes, high blood pressure or unexciting meds. If you're a 50-year-old male even 40 or with type II diabetes million dollars of life insurance may only cost you about 200 bucks a month for affordable term life insurance called term provider and speak with Big Blue and 800-700-6898 800-700-6898 or visit Big Blue.com. Remember big losers like you. He's on meds to 800 768, 98 to get away still listen to your favorite radio stations and podcasts then listen up my car radio is now the onboard music partner unselect Southwest flights. That means you can jam out your favorite local radio station even for flying coast-to-coast check out expertly curated stations that are perfect for kids and adults available on most domestic Southwest flights and perfect for a full nonstop for those pesky minutes between a movie and inking a plane touching down so grab your headphones razor tray table and relax with iHeartRadio and Southwest Airlines and we continue with our American stories and author Nathan Borenstein, author of the guns of John Moses Browning, the remarkable story of the inventor's firearms change the world. Let's pick up where we last left off. He had an enormous curiosity and once he got an idea in his head. He couldn't stop working on alternatives to the initial idea and advancements. So for example, in 1889 is out shooting was a big trap shooter very successful. There are practicing one day.

Any notice that the grass which growing up Tyrone the shooting range is being blown over by the gas podcasts gunpowder coming out in front of the rifle and many people had recognized that that was energy going out of the gun and then maybe you could do something with that and they had been. Ideas kicked around but no one had ever made a fire around that The burning the gases to produce energy to operate a mechanism Brunning went home and the next day he had a coupon titanate newspaper reporter got into the office. It's the only count we have Brunning at work and it describes the invented.

Pretty exciting going to say I got this new thing it's going to go how winding he says once he pulls the trigger and the right to cause a automatic rifle.

The automatic rifles we know today often go to hell.

It's the major combat weapon in the world today. AK's ARI's thrall gas operated fire from Brunning to just day use that basic concept to develop what became the first machine gun purchased by the American military in 1895.

Another gas operated gun that was all he did at the same time he was doing that he invented the first semiautomatic shotgun which widely used today made huge amount and then went on to invent the modern pistol.

So every handgun in the world today is essentially based uses as a mechanism design. Brunning invented in 1896, 1897. That's the slide action pistol we go to the movies are cops only see the top of the handgun go back and forth. That's the slide that in the internal mechanism of the slide is what Brunning invented do a lot of competitors. Many click click here. Lots of inventors trying to make a automatic pistol as they call them in the fight one shot, and there were on sale over probably two dozen competing concepts at the time Grimes was the only one that lasted it is the basis of not every, but virtually all handguns made in the world today that can be good or bad depending how you feel about it but no one can deny the historical importance that placate his brother realized a couple things that they were making as much money as I could because they were getting from Winchester that I was getting flat payments and they wanted loyalties on each gun may call gave them royalties but called at that point wasn't producing that many guns this is around 1900, so Brian's brother because they meet a guy at the coal factory from Philadelphia. His name is October is really zealot guy keeps popping up another space?) Submarine sales but at this point is Bergeson firearms agent and he had been educated and we as Belgian, which had a large making industry.

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They hit it off well there in in Yankee Connecticut writing to Mormon in those days Mormons were blasphemous, and Brunning himself was a Mormon missionary George Bob baffles to a lot of people and burgers Jewish so it was a two sort of outsider guys and become friends and brother is apparently the only industry person that Brunning ever invited back to it. Brunning really kept the two sides was in separate anyway so Brandenburger conference burgers back to Belgium and Brunning investor slide action pistol events.

Actually called only once to this is the larger heavy-duty one that they think they can sell to the Army. This can eventually become so famous in 1911 the side of the American army was 85 years running Lexis's cute little thing it's it's about this with the guidance machine but it's enormously well engineered and it's like a little engine cultism want to make it burn. Write a letter. So what will make it at that point FN regression on Belgian had a factory with nothing and making it so 1898, Brunning travels to Belgium and FN people go crazy over Scott and they stop making it an that starts a 2728 year long relationship between FN and Belgium Brunning. Brian would end up spending almost half of every year in Belgium. He taught himself French. He did his granddaughter tells me by looking up words in a French dictionary. Once he got a couple of words right see what he did not understand what data get that translation besought words in the translation.

He did not understand that look that up self-taught and he became a fiction have a French literature.

He grew a a goatee anymore.

This quite Panama hat and he was pollinated to American from the West and he quite intrigued the Belgian sisters are photographs of Brunning with a slew of FN engineers and he's a head taller than anybody else.

There was consider the character but when he did he brought FN in the city of Leach a great industrial fortune because they stop making his little pistol. They made a couple different versions, all designed by Brunning between 1919 14 they sold 1 1/4 million. That's about one handgun for every three or 400 people in your at the time. That's a lot of guns any creative problem. Visit German port from around 1911 that says everyone must buy a Brunning and returning from a culture of the knife where the princess would go out, get a job by fancy knife and now they want to block by gun, preferably of writing with a semiautomatic pistol and the problem was was that these were new things and the iPhone of the time it's not an exaggeration because people had never seen a little mechanical device like this finding may beautifully engineered and you pull the trigger and what happened you get an explosion at the press casing popping out the slide moves back and forth and holding a hand and it became a real popular item among both the people that people I might add X of the German say what we do about this because people didn't appreciate the fire gun the bullet will go forth alive and you're listening to Nathan Borenstein tell the story of John Moses Browning and for a while Browning was content selling his ideas in his designs Winchester.

He got a flat fee for Coke. He got a royalty because it didn't have the volume in the end, Browning needed a manufacturing home a place where he could quell cannot keep it all but control of it all and make more money for himself and his family and he found it in the unlikeliest of places and found a partner in Europe and Belgium of all places at a place one today associates with the manufacturer of handguns in my goodness he sold 1.4 million between 1919 14 and enormous sum and enormous influence on all the other manufacturers as well. When we come back more of this remarkable story of John Moses Browning, and by the way, pick up where you can Nathan Borenstein's book the guns of John Moses Browning, the remarkable story of the inventor whose firearms changed the world and indeed they did pick it up at a bookstore or an Amazon or the usual suspects again when we come back more of John Moses Browning story here on our American store is just around the corner and turned it off. Read the material family-friendly and modern outside and enjoyed conversation over half the essentials to make your home phone lunch, not fabulous in-store Ashley.com today need life insurance but have diabetes, high blood pressure or unexciting meds. If you're a 50-year-old male even 40 or with type II diabetes million dollars of life insurance may only cost you about 200 bucks a month for affordable term life insurance called term provider and speak with Big Blue and 800-700-6898 800-700-6898 or visit Big Blue.com. Remember big lose like you he's on meds to 800 768, 98, get away but still listen to your favorite radio stations and podcasts then listen up my car radio is now the onboard music partner unselect Southwest flights.

That means you can jam out your favorite local radio station even for flying coast-to-coast check out expertly curated stations that are perfect for kids and adults available on most domestic Southwest flights and perfect for a full nonstop for those pesky minutes between the movie and inking the plane, touching down so grab your headphones razor tray table and relax with iHeartRadio and Southwest Airlines and return to our American stories and the story of John Moses Browning between 1919 14, Browning sold 1 1/4 million of the slide action pistol's report author Nathan Borenstein called the iPhone of its time. Let's return to the store as of the German say what we do about this because people didn't appreciate the fire gun the bullet will go forth alive had guys in Europe and women to show showing off to their friends and shooting people.

You had people in training time to practice, not out of any vehicle aspect just because I didn't really understand that they had a weapon in their hands anyway. FN also sets making another Brunning design which is the shotgun which is a huge popular thing in America and Europe and the brightest side becoming more aggressive in getting royalties and all these guns and back in Ogden Brunning's brother Matt turned out to be really good businessman.

He becomes a banker in vessel companies. They both opera house with a couple of other folks arguments that still there and I did not and he becomes head of the school board and becomes one of the major folks in in in Ogden and well running the event. It is well known in his home state. He's not in the rest of the country that this is happening until 1917, 1918, when America enters World War I with an army that has no guns section mean that virtually literally, they have 400 machine guns.

I think I was very small army, so they had get arms and the only person well the arms they chose were John's writings he had created before the Army asked for 1919 12 on his own.

He had created a modern machine and a modern automatic rifle.

That rifle is a Brunning automatic rifle, which people are famous which he sends funds used in Soviet on the sea and would like to resolve the time I was the first automatic rifle adopted by the American military and the only one of only it was far more advanced in any of the couple versions that were English in Europe which are much larger, heavier on the life he also invented the 30 caliber machine gun. That's also the machine gun you see in everyone want to be either without invented parallel with the big one a cover jacket so we have these designs sitting there and so drags it out and they get perfected.

And the staff doesn't live in huge numbers that are also fisheries 1911 fist of the troops. So this one guys arming the American military, except for Michael's and so he gets also some attention and people want to know who he is and there were all these profiles written about him. But the interesting thing missing is 10 is not one quote from gliding in any of these profiles. His brother Matt must've issued press releases to people about his brother because a lot of these artificers quote the same anecdotes, but in other ask about well why do you make cuts and guns been controversial throughout American history. The programming anti-gun fight is not new to this error. So, one reporter got trying to agree to let him paraphrase and his mother. Brunning said when asked if he was asked what it will make automobiles.

Brunning assured readers that he was a peaceloving man who deplored war indeed had spent most of his career making sporting arms but was compelled to answer his nation's call. So Brunning is the famous, and yet he's he's not Kent is in his 60s at this point is his son and Matt's son are taking over part of the business side of the operation of running in 1918 is asked to invent another gun for the military and this guy is probably hit an historic terms to describe the most significant invention, the tank had appeared on the European battlefield and the American military wanted the machine gun that was powerful enough to penetrate tank, so they asked Brunning to create something that could fire a 50 caliber round.

That means that a bullet that's it half inch wide and so Brunning goes to work and he uses is the basis that the design machine invented in 1900 so that's how Nancy's mind and what he invents he dies 1926 and that God is not finished yet. It was so powerful that it was difficult to keep on target and break him of the request system and did other things to try make a control about what the invented is the 50 caliber machine gun into why is that significant.

Well every American airplane World War II fighter plane, was on Brunning's machine guns so there wasn't an air battle fought in World War II by the Americans that didn't use Brunning's guns is guns. Also, the British Spitfire and hurricanes 30 caliber guns during value and eight guns in each Spitfire hurricane and the British and tell you that's what when the battle of Britain is a British engineer decision of fireplace are great but is a paraphrasing of associative parliaments don't have guns and network and the British had picked Brian stated caliber gun because they were faster you live in a forgotten Janzen blink of an airplane catalog fix so you have something that would work quickly and that would be libeled when Jan setting the price 50 caliber gun so all those few 51 Mustangs lightnings on the both the B-17 B 24th everything.

I mean it literally is on going fishing us, but that's not all. So the armies up and one of the use automatic weapons at that time a Brunning will one Brunning automatic rifle and studied The machine gun is 1911 fist. The only other loves to us of major weapons. The garage rifle which is major factor in the process of machine gun which looks great, but actually wasn't all that effective because the charter pistol caliber cartridge and altruistically the Pacific would complain. It didn't have the power to penetrate vegetation and that's why they prefer Brunning shot a lot of cotton. Those with a major firearms used by the American military. So one can honestly say that wasn't a groundout of the one that was one thanks to Brian's again here.

That's a major historical impact of this major historical events in the world has been affected by firearms for good or ill firearms can save a life. Take a life they could feed a family they can wipe out a species know they occupy a suspected from good to evil and what we do in the is so dependent on ourselves.

What happened after John Byrne's death was that his son and nephew took over the business and they imported guns and sold them under the Brunning name originally from Belgium and then eventually from Japan mostly made by very good from Japan, local and sold by SN.

It turned out that in the 1970s, SN purchased the Brunning company regression on Belgian and so the Winchester rifles designed by Brunning and shotguns. So today come from Japan are owned by defendant Belgian and the end 250 caliber machine gun still used by the American Army today and by 80 other countries around the world that five attempts to replace it with something lighter will control recoil but the valve failed. Sometimes the challenges of why he may firearms any had a response to that and we did it once and one newspaper article with his paraphrase, and this is what the article says he replied to the effect that the world need of guns still was greatest that the field of arms invention was infinitely larger yet than that of the motorcar is however an ardent peace advocate recognizes the need of preparedness and the fact that generations probably must pass through an era of evolution. The use of force before the nations will be ready by reason of scientific advancement, intellectual culture to begin guns into plowshares and swords into putting books is a widely held belief at the time was books published about the theory that modern technology would make war impractical and possible input that hasn't been the case in knowing the technology did not usher in a world but what John Moses Browning accomplished, particularly for outfitting American soldiers in battle American planes and British planes in battle or could easily have saved the world from the Nazi menace and Japanese imperial ambitions and what a story this is a terrific job on the production by Greg Engler and a special thanks Nathan Borenstein for sharing the story of John Moses Browning's book the guns of John Moses Browning, the remarkable story of the inventor whose firearms change the world is available in bookstores or ever you get your books online, and what a story to tell about the inventiveness that started way back in that shop of his father's at the age of five. We learn this over and over again. The Wright brothers. No big PhD's from colleges know there is was making their way in a bicycle shop is mechanics. What we learn here is 15 years as Nathan said John Moses Browning got a PhD in firearm engineering ever since he was a boy and his father shop.

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