On this episode of Our American Stories few people are aware that John Moses Browning a tall modest man born in and raised as a Mormon in the American West-- invented the mechanism used in virtually all modern pistols created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns and conceived the machine guns introduced in World War I which dominated air and land battles in World War II Nathan Gorenstein author of The Guns of John Moses Browning The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World is here to tell the story of this little-known American legend whose
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