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In addition to designing several versions of lever action rifles for the Winchester Firearms company, the weapons he developed included:

• A semi-automatic shotgun
• A pump action shotgun (including the US Army issue M97)
• A .22 caliber rifle
• The M250 machine gun nicknamed Ma Deuce by troops, is a weapon designed by John Browning before WW II that is still in use today. It fires. 50 BMG cartridges that were designed for this weapon but today find a new use in high powered sniper rifles. The M2 is an .50 caliber heavy machine gunA machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. Overview M2 machine gun surrounded by spent shell casings Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per bullet fired, a machine gun will
• The Model 1917Browning Model 1917 Heavy Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun used by the United States armed forces in World War I and World War II. The Browning is a water cooled heavy machine gun. The gun is based on a modified Maxim gun recoil operated system. In 1901 water-cooled machine gun
• The Browning Automatic RifleThe Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was designed in 1917 by the weapons designer John Browning as a replacement for the French-made Chauchat Light Machine Gun, which was plagued by design flaws that made the weapon ineffective. The M1918A2 model is picture (BAR)
• The Browning Hi-PowerThe Browning Hi-Power (nicknamed King of Nines is a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol designed in part by American John Browning during the last years of his life in Belgium, working for the Fabrique Nationale de Herstal Arms Company. This pistol was noted for h 9mm semi-automatic handgunA semi-automatic handgun is one which fires a single round every time that the trigger is pulled until its ammunition is exhausted. It is often used to refer to semi-automatic pistols but the term could arguably include revolvers although this is the subj
• The Colt Model 1911The M1911 is a. 45 caliber, single action, semi-automatic handgun. Along with the. 45 ACP cartridge, it was designed by John Browning, and was the standard-issue handgun in the combat arm of the United States Armed Forces from 1911 to 1985. History The we .45 semi-automatic handgun

The last three weapons saw use in World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of, World War II and the Korean War. The Colt 1911 had the longest period of service from 1911 to 1986, and a variant is still used by special operations units of the USMC and FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. Browning had a long standing relationship with Fabrique Nationale (FN) to build many of his guns. In 1977 FN acquired the Browning Arms Company which had been established in 1927, the year after Browning's death.

Browning belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a served a two year mission for the church in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. His father Jonathan Browning , who was among the thousands of Mormon pioneers in the mass exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois to Utah, had established a gunsmith shop in Ogden in 1852.