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Jan 24, 2011 · Introduced 100 years after the original 1911 pistol, the Browning 1911-22 pistol is proudly made in the USA, at a state-of-the-art factory located only a few miles south of Ogden, Utah – the same town where John M. Browning lived and where the genius of all of his greatest firearms inventions began.
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Designed by John Browning, the M1911 is the best-known of his designs to use the short recoil principle in its basic design. The pistol was widely copied, and this operating system rose to become the preeminent type of the 20th century and of nearly all modern centerfire pistols.
Browning's most successful designs include the M1911 pistol, the water-cooled M1917, the air-cooled M1919, and heavy M2 machine guns, the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Browning Auto-5 – the first semi-automatic shotgun. Some of these arms are still manufactured, often with only minor changes in detail and cosmetics to those ...
Oct 15, 2013 · John Browning’s new .45 pistol proved to be up to the job and quickly become a favorite among American troops and not just as a comforting companion. During one legendary engagement, Sergeant Alvin York (Medal of Honor recipient) used a M1911 to stop an attack by six German soldiers, killing six with six shots from his .45.
