Show Edison of Firearms I A Army Ac Accepts ep ts s Brown Browning ng C Guns irn S I. I I Weapons Will Destroy Huns eap I p I By Isy arry Harry B. B Hunt ARTFORD Conn Nov 17 Well Vell Old J J. J M M. has done It I agarn That Is the chief topic of I conversation these days In tho the bl big shops of Hartford New Haven n and j Bridgeport where the bulk of ot the ri rifles rl- rl fles les pistols and machine guns suns for Uncle Sams Sam's army Is being turned out For Tor In these towns to say flay that Old J T. T M M. M has do done no it again aln i U Is the tho simplest simplest sim aim pleat and most moat direct wa way of or stating slating that John M M. Drowning Browning has Invented a anew anew anew new kind of firearm This time however Old J J. M M. I has done It twice He lie has inv Invented not one but two n new w guns Both have havo been accepted by the United States government contracts for Immense numbers of at each have havo been signed and work of ot production is being pushed night and anti day The new weapons will wilt willbe willbe be put into the field against Germany at the earliest possible da day daj Who Vho Is John Browning Drowning You never heard of fC him Well Browning Drowning is the father of rapid fire and automatic firearms Ills His Is the brain behind practically every basic small firearm Invention In the past forty years jears ears He lie has been to the development o of firearms what Edison has been to electricity Unquestionably the greatest Inventor Invent j or of oC firearms in the world Is the tho unanimous verdict of the gun experts of oC the Colt Remington and Winchester plants whose business It Is to study and criticise every development of ot f firearms fire ire arms But Dut If Browning Drowning Is our greatest gun Inventor he is the tho most genius in the country when It comes to lo publicity lIe He would rather face a machine gun than a 0 reporter 4 A few years ago a paper In his home state Utah state Utah published a little story about his success as an Inventor and the story was copied by the Hartford Id rather have paid 1000 cash than had that stuff sturt printed Browning says Friends however who believe that the world should know something this firearms wizard furnished the following sidelights on his career Browning Drowning comes from Cram an stock old-stock Mormon Monnon family of at Ogden Utah As a ayoung ayoung young oung man he was a great hunter go goIng going going go- go ing off irto into the woods for a month or orsi I six si weeks at a time with only his gun un unI I company lIe He was only 24 when I ho he worked out his Ideas for a gun carrying carrying carrying car car- n a magazine full of cartridges which could be fired rapidly In succession sion lIe Ho pounded out tho to parts for fol his lila first firo rapid gun with hammer hammerand and cold chisel Since Sinco that time pump and trombone bone one automatic pistols rapid tire rifles produced by the tho biggest big big- go goat gest t firearms manufacturers In the country have havo been Drowning Browning products The United States army pistol Is a Browning Drowning invention A Browning Drowning pistol manufactured by byI bytho I the tho Fabrique Nationale of Belgium I was made mide the standard equipment for forI forthe forthe the armies of Belgium Russia Spain Italy and Serbia I On completion of the one millionth pistol by the Fabrique Nationale King ICing KingI Albert o of Belgium knighted the modest Inventor so ho Is now officially I Sir John Browning Drowning Although Browning will wilt nt talk of himself or of his lila career as an Inventor I he cant can't help talking when the tho conversation conversation conver conyer- Is turned on guns I always think ofa gun as something something something some some- I thing that Is made mado primarily to shoot he says The Tho best gun is the tho simplest gun When you begin loading a gun up with a lot of fancy contraptions II I and safety devices you are only In Inventing inventing inventing in- in venting trouble You complicate the mechanism and make that many more I places for dirt tind grit to clog cloS the tho ac action ac- ac tion You can make a gun so safe that It wont won't shoot O Of Brownings Browning's new guns It Is not o of course permissible to give any details One however Is a light rapid fire gun weighing only fifteen pounds which can be fired from the shoulder like the ordinary rifle Each magazine carries twenty rounds and the empty magazine can be det detached ched and another substituted substituted substituted by pressing a button The Tho heavier gun Is a fed belt-fed machine machine ma ma- chine capable of firing tiring shots a minute Although It Is It weighs water jacket an and all only twenty-eight twenty pounds For airplane work where the firing tiring Is In bursts and the speed of the tho machine helps cool I the gun the Jacket Is discarded and the gun weighs only twenty pounds Both guns are arc counted upon as valuable valuable val val- additions to the tho equipment of our overseas forces Browning Drowning is Is tall slender slightly stooped 62 bald except for a rim of gray hair and wears a closel gray mustache His face tace Js Ss s mark marka a network of ot tine fine lines 31 |