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Died. Jonathan Edmund Browning, 80, famed gunsmith; in New Haven, Conn. Father Jonathan Browning was an Iowa gunsmith, who founded Browning Arms Co. in Ogden, Utah (1851). Brother John invented many firearms. Jonathan Edmund constructed the models...
Died. Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to Brazilian revolutionists...
...persons) in the most intelligent-and intelligible-words of hers that I have seen, injected some common sense into this discussion recently when she said, "Men fight because they want to fight." Selling revolvers, pitchforks or store teeth to farmers with a line fence row does not make the gunsmith, hardware dealer or town dentist the cause of the ensuing bloodshed and mayhem...
...loss of the Scotch shooting, the Sandringham gamekeeper announccd that Sandringham coverts are unusually well-stocked this year. Last week Lord Stamfordham, the King's private secretary, ordered a pair of guns a few ounces lighter than those His Majesty used before his illness, from Purdey, famed gunsmith...
...Browning's home is in 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...