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Show UNCLE SAM ADOPTS THE BROWNING AUTORflATIC GUN After a Competition Extending Over Many Months and With All Makes of Automatic Pistols, the p . Government Accepts the Ogden Man's Invention as the Official Weapon for the Army Places Orders for Thirty Thousand Guns as Soon as Possible. i -- . After an exhaustive compotl- f lion, participated In by all -f- -f makers of automatic pistols 4- and revolvers, Including tho Savase and other woll knpwn - firms, the United States gov- -- ernment has adopted tho Colt's f 45 callbor automatic pistol, In- -f f vented by J. M. Browning of -f -f Ogden, as the standard weapon f- for the army. t-f -r -r--r-- -r- The message announcing tho victory vic-tory of tho Browning automatic has Just been received by Browning Brothers Broth-ers and states that tho Initial order or-der for 30.000 of the weapons has been placed with tho Colts Firearms company of Hartford, Conn. This Is ono of the greatest triumphs which has come to tho Ogden man In his long career as 03 Inventor of flrc-arniR. flrc-arniR. The selection of the Browning patent pat-ent for government service means that within threo or four years, even if thero should be no war or war alarms, the government will requlro 100,000 of the Browning automatics to supply the army. This signal victory for Messrs. M. B. and J. M. Browning came as a result re-sult of the most exclusive tests extending ex-tending over a period of several years and culminating In a final test about two weeks ago, during which 0,000 shots were fired from one pistol without with-out hitch or Interruption Tho gun was subjected to a rusting and sanding test, In which acid was used. Freak loads of defective am- munition, excessively heavy and light . loads were fired and after this rough usage, much rougher than the gun could possibly be subjected to in regular reg-ular service, a microscopic examination examina-tion failed to reveal n crack, flaw or defect of any kind in the mechanism of tho pistol Tho Browning automatic, as it is generally known, will replace the revolver re-volver throughout the army service and will be supplied to tho regular army and militia as" rapidly as It can be manufactured. The new order or-der is looked upon as the most radical radi-cal change Jn army equipment since the JCrag-Jorgenson replaced tho old Springfield rillo. This new pistol of the Browning invention will fire a 45 caliber ball and carry eight loads. Tho exceptional excep-tional large size of ball Is for the purpose of Inflicting the most dangerous dan-gerous lnjmy and completely disabling disab-ling an enemy struck by even ono of the bullets During tho Spanish-American war and also the Filipino uprising it was found that men who had sustained as high as threo wounds from the light bullets were able to continue fighting The heavy 45 ball will bring them down add dlsablo anyone it strikes because be-cause of the great shock it will in fllct- Thero havo been manufactured more of the Browning automatics than of any other stylo of pistol In existence. exist-ence. At present theso weapons are being produced In the plant of tho Colts company and at a largo factory In Liege, Belgium. More than one million of this model hao been produced pro-duced at the Belgium factory alone and the plant Is now turning out COO daily. I |