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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

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Browning Arms Company Founded    1878. Ogden, Utah, United States. Products: Firearms, Sports equipment.
John Moses Browning was born in 1855 in Ogden, Utah, and spent a great deal of his growing up years at this father's side in his father’s store and gun repair shop. In 1878, with encouragement of his father, he designed and began production about 600 single shot rifle. This began a string of products he licensed to Winchester including the Model 1886, Model 1892, 1887 shotgun, Model 94 and Theodore Roosevelt’s favorite, the 1895. There were many more of his creations that became Winchesters.

By the turn of the century he was licensing fully automatic firearms and self-loading pistols – like the BAR, the M2 machine gun, the 1911 pistol. The Buckmark logo was designed Don Bailey in the fall of 1977.

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