Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-04-08 | Page 16 | Browning Gun Has Federal Approval

Browning Gun Has Federal WASHINGTON April 8 With With the war departments department's approval on Tuesday of or tho the Browning call ber machine guns Invented by John 7 M. M t Browning of ot Ogden Utah the United d States army will vili possess tho the most effective antiaircraft and antitank rapid fire w weapons apons In The She ho world The Tho guns will be part of ot i the standard equipment of the arm army and will be manufactured end issued at once I Tho The gun Kun In question has Just been developed from tho the caliber weapon used during the war wa and which gave PYO tho the United States first place In rapid-fire rapid gun guns With the tho antiaircraft mound 1 the new gun will wJ be able ablo to fire shots per minute to an altitude of ot 15 feet Following each ninety nine nine- ty shots there thero will be a a. shot carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing a tracer to enable gunners to follow the course courso of ot their tire fire The Tho tracer compound will also act as a firing tiring agent when passing through Inflammable material Firing from front the horizontal mound tho the gun has a range of practically five miles Here too each gun will wll fire shots per minute This has tho the tracer feature feature fea fea- ture also In addition to having a range superior to that of ot other machine machine machine ma ma- maI I chine guns Kuns It has hns an added advantage tage tago of ot firing a n. shot which will wll pierce light armor making It es especially os- os effective against tanks It 11 Itis itis I is said eald