Word: breeches
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...Ogden, Utah. He was born in 1855, and his genius runs in the family, for Jonathan Browning, his father, was a gunsmith in the Civil War period. John M. made his first gun at 13, of scrap iron in his father's shop. He patented his breech-loading rifle in 1879, a repeating rifle in 1884, and a box magazine in 1895. He holds in all 132 patents on rapid-fire weapons of all sizes, many of which are manufactured by the Winchester and Colt companies. His automatic guns have been adopted by several European governments, and both...