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He created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns and conceived the machine guns introduced in World War I. and which dominated air and land battles in World War II. Nathan Gorenstein, author of The Guns of John Moses Browning, is here to tell the story of this little-known American legend whose impact on history ranks right there with the Wright brothers. Thomas Edison. and Henry Ford.
Yeah. This is a story about the most important American inventor most of your listeners have never heard of. We grew up knowing about Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Henry Ford. But missing from that list is another fellow I'd suggest should be on it, John Moses Browning. Mm.
He was born in 1855 on the far edge of the American West. He died in 1926 in the offices of an industrial complex in Europe. that was created on the basis of his inventions. What did he do? He's a guy.
Whose machines? Started World War I. and won World War II. and influence America and the world to this day. Who am I?
My name's Nathan Gorenstein. 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 had ever written a serious biography of him. If you go online, there are tens of thousands of uh Books, articles, videos about his firearms, which are ubiquitous, and most of you know them under the names of Colt.
Winchester, Savage, Remington, Engineer Fabrique Nationale, if I can say that in French. But all those products didn't come from the minds of engineers in those companies, they came from this guy from Utah. who was born before the telegraph reached his town.
So He was a tall man, over six feet. He was balding. And he was unknown. outside the world of gun manufacturing into World War One. when America entered the war and Americans finally learned that Their boys, husbands, sons, brothers, were going to go to war armed with the weapons invented by one guy who they had never heard of.
So who was this fellow?
Well, he was born in Ogden, Utah, when it was a Mormon town. His father had three wives, he and his brother Matt. who was important to John Browning's career, were the offspring of the second wife. Their father, Jonathan Browning, was a blacksmith and gunsmith. And so John, who went to work, this was the frontier after all, so he went to work early, he was at work in his father's shop at five years old.
And this is in 1860. And for the next 15 years, he got what amounted to a PhD in mechanical engineering and firearms design, because his father's shop was located next to one of the major pioneer trails heading west. And over the years, he saw every kind of firearm imaginable that he had a fix. Repair. They built some themselves.
So he had a really, like in many sports, you see someone go out and do something and they're really good, and you realize that, well, they're so good because they were doing it from five years old.
Well, he was so good because he was doing it from a tiny age. But he had one other advantage. That means most of us use on a very basic level every day.
Okay. It's called spatial recognition or spatial rotation. And so we use it every day when we pack a suitcase, we have to figure out how do things go inside, or we look at a map. And we have to figure out how to get somewhere. But Browning's great gift was that he could think in three dimensions.
So think of a Rubik's cube. It's a six-sided thing with all these colored cubes. And you have to rotate them so they line up.
Well, most of us find it really hard to do. Browning is the kind of guy, because of his mental skills, he could have done that. in his head, and probably done two or three at the same time. He never used blueprints. He didn't do working drawings.
He didn't have a computer. He didn't have a slide roof. He had his head. His granddaughter, who is in her 90s now, told me a great story told to her by her mother about the elderly Bronning sitting in a chair. at night in their house.
Tapping on his head for hours at a time. It used to drive the mother crazy, but what he was doing was thinking through ideas.
So he'd come up with an idea for a firearm. He would Make a couple of rough sketches, sort of like his own notes that no one else could read. And then he would cut out templates, flat pieces of metal, maybe cardboard, that he would work in his hands to see how they would interact. And then he and his brother, one of his half-brothers, he had a big family who, many of whom helped him in his business, would stand by basic metal working machines and make each part one at a time. Bronning would tell Ed, this is a little thicker, this is a little 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 them. They didn't use blueprints. It was just they made a gun. They would test it. It would work.
You can see them in museums now across the country. And they look like industrial produced weapons. But they were made in this small workshop in Ogden, Utah by John Browning and his brothers.
Now, Browning was reluctant to start designing weapons because he thought that was inventing things. Don't forget, he's out on the western frontier where he's sort of in the middle of nowhere. And inventing things were done by the great industrial companies back east. And he felt he was, you know, he didn't want to do it. And his father had to push him to do it.
One of the things that encouraged him was that he got married to a woman by the name of Rachel. and he had to support a family. As a quick aside, Bronning was interested in a plural marriage. Rachel wasn't. And the storyline is that when Bronning suggested it to her, she said, over your dead body.
Um But so he started inventing guns. Rachel, he and Rachel would have 10 kids, by the way. And then a firearm made its way to Winchester, which which was stymied. Winchester was famous for its very original liver action rifles, but they were trying to develop a bit of gun and the in-house guys couldn't do it. And then one of their salesmen shows up with this really simple but effective.
High-powered hunting rifle, the exact kind of thing their people couldn't make because they wanted it to handle a major military cartridge, a high-powered military cartridge.
So they buy it from Browning, the head of the company, on his way to San Francisco on business, stops in Utah and buys it for $8,000, the rights to make the weapon. But Winchester realizes in Bronning they have the real deal. Because he has other ideas and he shows them one of them, which becomes the most famous, second most famous liver action rifle in the world. And they buy that for an unheard of sum of $50,000, which was a huge amount of money. Don't forget, all these guns are being made.
Under Winchester's name, no one in the public knows who's designing these firearms. Briding doesn't work for Winchester, but he sells each of them to 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 Browning sort of creates the Winchester Rifle Company, because at that point they have one old lever action gun.
So he creates for them a single shot rifle, a lever action rifle. Lover action. Shotgun. Pump action shotguns. And then he designed the most popular hunting rifle in America, probably the Winchester 3030 lever action rifle.
Still made today. Over 6 million have been sold. and people say it's the rifle that has taken more deer than any other rifle in America. But he was really just getting started. And you've been listening to author Nathan Gorenstein 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, but also the rifles, the shotguns that we used to defend ourselves and hunt. the man who had the ideas that became the guns. By the way, we love to talk about our founders and how they protected intellectual property rights with the patent. In Article I of the US Constitution, that's how forward-thinking they were. When we come back, the story of John Moses Browning, here.
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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 to the idea.
So, for example, In 1889, he was out shooting. He was a big trap shooter, very successful one, I might add. And they were out practicing one day, and he noticed that. The grass, which had grown up high around the shooting range, was being blown over by the gas, hot gas, the gunpowder coming out of the front of the rifle. And many people had recognized that that was energy going out of the gun, and that maybe you could do something with that.
And there had been ideas kicked around, but no one had ever made a firearm that tapped. The burning Gunpowder, the gases. To produce energy to operate a mechanism.
Well, Bronning went home, and the next day, he had a crude prototype made. A newspaper reporter got into the office. It's the only account we have of Bronning at work, and it describes the inventor. Pretty excited going on saying I got this new thing and it's gonna go a hell winding he says once he pulls the trigger and the writer calls an automatic rifle Now automatic rifles we know today For good or ill, it's the major combat weapon in the world today. AKs, ARs.
They were all gas-operated firearms. Rob Browning had just invented the first one. In a day, And use that basic concept to develop what became the first machine gun. purchased by the American military in 1895, another gas-operated gun. That wasn't all he did.
At the same time he was doing that, he invented. the first Senior Automatic. Shotgun, which widely used today, it made a huge amount of money for him. And then he went on to invent the modern pistol.
So every handgun in the world today is essentially based, uses as a mechanism the design Browning invented in 1896, 1897. That's the slide action pistol. When you go to the movies or a cup show and you see the top of the handgun go back and forth, that's the slide. That and the internal mechanism of the slide is what Browning invented. There were a lot of competitors, many, particularly in Europe, there were lots of inventors trying to make an automatic pistol, as they called them.
They only fired one shot, but they were called automatic pistols. And there were. I'm gonna say over. probably two dozen competing concepts at the time. But Browning's was the only one that lasted.
It is the basis for 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 historic import of that. Mm-hmm. At that point, he and his brother realized a couple of things that They weren't making as much money as they could have because they were getting from Winchester, they had always been getting flat payments and they wanted royalties on each gun made.
Colt gave them royalties, but Colt at that point wasn't producing that many guns. This is around 1900.
So Bronning and his brother. Because they meet a guy at the Colt Factory from Philadelphia. His name is Hart O'Berg. He was a really zealous kind of guy. He keeps popping up in all these places across Europe with the Wright brothers and submarine sails.
But at this point, he's Berg is a firearms engineer. And he had been educated in Liege, Belgium. which had a large I'm a making industry going back to 1400. And so he and Berg hit it off.
Now, why do they hit it off?
Well, they're in Yankee, Connecticut. Bronnings are Mormon. In those days Mormons were blasphemous. And Brownie himself, who was a Mormon missionary in Georgia, we almost got beat off badly by a mob. You know, Mormons were bad folks to a lot of people.
And Bird was Jewish.
So here were the two sort of outsider guys and become friends and Burr is apparently the only industry person that Bronning ever invited back to Ogden. Brian really kept the two sides of his business separate. Anyway, so Bronning and Berg become friends. Berg goes back to Belgium. And Brunning invents the slide action pistol.
He invents three of them actually. And Colt only wants to make one. This is the larger, heavy-duty one that they think they can sell to the Army. This gun eventually becomes the famous M1911, the side of the American Army. course 85 years.
But the one Bronnie likes is this cute little thing. It's it's about the s I mean, uh it's it's a gun, it's a machine, but it it's enormously well engineered and it's like a little engine in your hand. Colt doesn't want to make it, and Berg writes a letter saying, Well, we'll make it. And at that point, FN. That's Fabrique Nationale in Belgium.
Had a factory with nothing to make in it, so In eighteen ninety eight. Bronning travels to Belgium and the FN people go crazy over his gun and they start making it. And that starts a 27, 28 year long relationship between FN and Belgium and Bronning. And Bronning would end up spending almost half of every year in Belgium. He taught himself French, He did it, his granddaughter tells me.
By looking up words in a French dictionary. Once he got a couple of words right, he'd see a word he didn't understand. Look that up, get that translation. If he saw words in the translation he didn't understand, he'd look that up.
So he was self-taught. and he became an affectionate French literature. He grew a goatee and he wore this white Panama hat and he was tall and he was American from the West and he quite intrigued the Belgians. If there's a photograph of Bronning with a slew of FN engineers and he's a head taller almost than anybody else there. He was considered a character.
But what he did he brought FN and the city of Liege sort of A great industrial fortune because they stopped making his little pistol. They made a couple of different versions, all designed by Browning, and between 1900. In 1914, they sold one and a quarter million of them. And that's about one handgun for every three or four hundred people in Europe. at the time.
That's a lot of guns. And it created a problem. There's a German report from around 1911 that says: everyone wants to buy a branding, and we're turning from a culture of the knife. where a apprentice would go out, get a job, and buy a fancy knife. And now they want to go out and buy a gun, preferably a grinding little semi-automatic pistol.
And the problem was that these were new things, and they were almost like the iPhone of the time. That's not an exaggeration, because people had never seen a little. mechanical device. like this, finely made, beautifully engineered. And you pull the trigger, and what happens?
You got an explosion, you got the brass casing popping out, the slide moves back and forth, and you hold it in your hand. And it became a real popular item. Among both. Good people and bad people, I might add. And so the Germans say, What do we do about this?
Because people didn't appreciate you fire a gun, the bullet will go. For a mile. And you're listening to Nathan Gornstein tell the story of John Moses Browning. And for a while Browning was content. Selling his ideas and his designs to Winchester he got a flat fee.
To Colt he got a royalty. But Colt didn't have the volume. And in the end, Brownie needed a manufacturing home. A place where he could, well, not keep it all, but keep 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, in Belgium, of all places. Not a place one today associates with the manufacture of handguns. And my goodness, he sold 1.4 million. between 1900 and 1914. An enormous sum and had 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 Gorenstein'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 at Amazon or the usual suspects. Again, when we come back, more of John Moses Browning's story here.
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And we return to our American stories and the story of John Moses Browning. Between 1900 and 1914, Browning sold one and a quarter million of his slide-action pistols, what author Nathan Gorenstein called the iPhone of its time. Let's return to the story. And so the Germans say, what do we do about this? Because people didn't appreciate you fire a gun, the bullet will go.
for a mile. You had guys in Europe and women too, sort of showing off to their friends and shooting people. Or you had people on trains doing tiger practice, not out of any. venal aspect just because they didn't really understand that they had a weapon in their hands. Anyway.
Ethn also starts making another Bronning design, which is the semi-automatic shotgun, which is a huge popular thing in America and Europe. And the Bronnings start becoming very wealthy because they're getting royalties on all these guns. And back in Ogden, Bronning's brother Matt, Turns out to be a really good businessman. He becomes a banker. He invests in companies.
They built an opera house with a couple of other folks from Ogden that's still there in Ogden now. And he becomes head of the school board and he becomes one of the major folks in In Ogden. And while Bronning the Inventor is well known in his home state. He's not in the rest of the country. That doesn't happen until...
1917, 1918, when America enters World War I with an army that has no guns, essentially. I mean, that's virtually literally. They had like 400 machine guns, I think, and. It was a very small army.
So they had a Get arms. And the only person well The arms they chose were John Browning's arms. He had created Before the army asked for it, between 1900 and 1912, on his own. He had created a modern machine gun and a modern automatic rifle. The rifle is the Brunei automatic rifle, which people are famous, which he's famous for, and was used.
until Vietnam. You see it in World War II movies all the time. Uh and it was the first automatic rifle. adopted by the American military. And the only one of it only it was far more advanced than any of a couple of versions that were in use in Europe, which were much larger, heavier.
Unreliable. He also invented the.30-caliber machine gun. That's also the machine gun you see in every World War II movie, either with a Vented barrel or with a big water-covered jacket.
So he had these designs sitting there. And so he drags them out and they get perfected. and they stopped building them in huge numbers. I might add, they're also issuing his 1911 pistol to troops.
So, this one guy is arming the American military except for rifles, and so he gets all sorts of attention. and people want to know who he is and there were all these profiles written about him but the interesting thing missing is him. There's not one quote from Browning in any of these profiles. His brother Matt. must have issued press releases to people about his brother because a lot of these articles sort of quote the same anecdotes.
But you know they were asked about well why do you make guns? I mean guns have been controversial throughout American history the the pro-gun and anti-gun fight is not new to this era So one reporter got Bronte to agree to let him paraphrase him. And here's what Bronning said when I asked him. He was asked, why don't you make automobiles? Brining assured readers that he was a peace loving man who deplored war, indeed had spent most of his career making sporting arms, but was compelled to answer his nation's call.
So Bronning is now famous. And but you know he's he's not kid. He's in his 60s at this point. He has his son and Matt's son are taking over part of the business side of the operation. But Browning in 1918 is asked to invent another gun for the military.
And this gun is probably, in historic terms, It's probably the most significant invention. The tanks had appeared on the European battlefield and the American military wanted a machine gun. that was powerful enough to penetrate tank armor.
So they asked Browning to create something that could fire a 50 caliber round. That means a a bullet that's a half inch wide. And so Bronning goes to work and he uses as the basis That design was Shingon he invented in 1900.
So I mean that's how Beiels's mind worked. And what he invents Uh he dies in 1926 and the gun is not finished yet. It was so powerful that it was difficult to keep on target. And Brownie came up with a new recoil system and did other things to try and make it controllable. But what he invented.
is the 50 caliber machine gun, the M2. Why is that significant?
Well Every American airplane in World War II, every fighter plane, every bomber, was armed with Bronning's machine guns.
So there wasn't an air battle fought in World War II. by the Americans that didn't use Bronning's guns. His guns also armed the British Spitfire and Hurricanes 30 caliber guns during the Battle of Britain. And Eight guns in each spit firing a hurricane, and the British will tell you that's what won the Battle of Britain. And there's a British engineer who says, you know, fighter planes are great, but I'm paraphrasing here, but essentially they're hood ornaments if you don't have guns in them that work.
And the British had picked Browning's 30-caliber gun because they were fast and reliable. You know, if a gun jams in the wing of an airplane, you can't go out and fix it.
So you had to have something that would work quickly and that was reliable and wouldn't jam. The same thing with Bronning's 50 caliber guns.
So all those P-51 Mustangs, Lightnings, Thunderbolts, the B-17s, the B-24s, Everything. I mean that literally, is armed with Bronning's machine guns. But that's not all.
So the army is out there, and what do they use? There are automatic weapons at that time, a Bronning's World War I, Bronning automatic rifle, and his 30 caliber machine gun. and it's 1911 pistol. The only other, well, there's two other sort of major weapons: the Garand rifle, which is a major factor, and the Thompson submachine gun, which looks great, but actually wasn't all that effective because it shot a pistol-caliber cartridge. And troops, particularly in the Pacific, would complain it didn't have the power to penetrate vegetation.
And that's why they preferred the Browning, because it shot a larger cartridge. But those were the major firearms used by the American military.
So one can honestly say there wasn't a ground battle won that wasn't won thanks to Bronning's weapons. And again, You know, that's a major historical impact. You know, there's not a major historical event in the world. That hasn't been affected by firearms, for good or ill. You know, firearms can save a life, take a life.
They could feed a family, they can wipe out a species. you know, they occupy a a spectrum from good to evil and what we do with them is sort of dependent on ourselves. What happened after John Browning's death was that his son and nephew took over the business and they imported guns and sold them under the Bronning name originally from Belgium and then eventually from Japan. mostly made by a very good firm in Japan called Moroku and sold by FN. It turned out that in the 1970s, FN purchased the Bronning Company, that's Fabrique Nationale in Belgium.
Yeah. And so the Winchester rifles designed by Browning. And the shotguns sold today come from Japan and are owned by FN in Belgium. And the M two fifty caliber machine gun is still used by the American Army today and by 80 other countries around the world. There have been five attempts.
to replace it. with something lighter. with more controlled recoil, but they've all failed. Brunny would sometimes be challenged on why he made firearms. And he had a response to that, and we get it once in one newspaper article where he's paraphrased.
And this is what the article says. He replied to the effect that the world's need of guns still was greatest. that the field of arms invention was infinitely larger yet than that of the motor car. He is, however, an ardent peace advocate, and But recognizes the need of preparedness and the fact that generations probably must pass. through an era of evolution and the use of force.
before the nations will be ready. By reason of scientific advancement in intellectual culture, to beat their guns into plowshares and their swords into printing books. And that was a widely held belief at the time. There were books published about the theory that modern technology would make war. impractically impossible.
Unfortunately, that hasn't proved to be the case. And no, indeed, technology did not usher in a world of peace. But what John Moses Browning accomplished, particularly for outfitting American soldiers in battle, American planes, and British planes in battle.
Well, it 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 Hengler. And a special thanks to Nathan Gorenstein for sharing the story of John Moses Browning.
His book, The Guns of John Moses Browning, the remarkable story of the inventor whose firearms changed the world, is available in bookstores or wherever 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 PhDs from colleges.
No, theirs was making their way in a bicycle shop as mechanics. And what we learn here is for 15 years. As Nathan said, John Moses Browning got a PhD in firearm engineering ever since he was a boy in his father's shop. The STORY OF JOHN MOSES BROWNING HERE on Our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans.
It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues.
Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q. That's usmint.gov/slash S-E-M-I-Q. In football, you've got guys from everywhere. Different backgrounds, different beliefs, all of it. You don't agree on everything.
but you got each other's backs. That's how it works. And right now, off the field, hate's going up everywhere. Different communities, different ways. And Jewish communities are getting hit hard.
That's not how a team operates. The blue square is just one way of showing you've got people's backs. Go to bluesquarealliance.org, grab one, share it, be a good teammate. When Kohler, global design leader in luxurious kitchen and bath products, asked me to be their ambassador for timeless, elegant, durable cast iron, I said, I'm in.
Soon after, I was in their Kohler, Wisconsin foundry, watching molten iron poured, enamel applied by hand, and the beautiful finished pieces ready to ship. Since eighteen eighty three Kohler cast iron has been crafted by incredible artisans, and seeing it first hand gave me a whole new appreciation for their craftsmanship.
Now, I am proud to lend my stamp of approval to my favorite Kohler cast iron products for their durability, beauty, and enduring style. Shop my curated pics at Kohler dot com. As the Kohler Cast Iron Ambassador, I say, Long live Cast Iron. You ever wonder how far an EV can take you on one charge?
Well, most people drive about 40 miles a day, which means you can do all daily stuff no problem. Go to work, grab the kids at school, get the groceries, and still have enough charge to visit your in-laws in the next county. But they don't need to know that. And the best part, you won't have to buy gas at all. The way forward is electric.
Explore EVs that fit your life at electricforall.org.
