Browning pistols created by the great designer John Moses. He developed mechanisms for many models of weapons of the time. But it was the gun made by the latest technologies that made the basis of modern weapons that made him famous all over the world. Not a single copy of those that can be seen today would not have appeared if not for the invention of John Moses.
Browning pistols combined power, compactness, special forms for constant use. The ammunition was brand new 7.65 rounds, which had good penetration capabilities. The bullet pretty accurately hit the target at small open distances.
All design innovations influenced the rapid spread, given the fact that Browning pistols by their uniqueness had a rather low cost. Samples in a short time appeared on the international arms market and were primarily used by the civilian population.
John Moses worked on this pistol for a long time before putting it on public display. The first finished prototype self-loading device gunsmith demonstrated the famous company Colt. The automatic mechanism worked using powder gases that passed through the bore. The main detail of Browning was a piston-lever. He performed the function of releasing the shutter and cocking the trigger.
At the beginning of 1896, Browning pistols changed in design. The gunsmith used automatic equipment operating under the action of the energy of the shot for the free-gate mechanism, which operates under the force of the return spring and the entire weight of the casing. This sample was the best Browning pistol. This is due to the fact that the casing and the bolt of the trunk are combined into one integral part.
In this model, low-power cartridges of 32 caliber were used. In the first year of collaboration with Colt, Browning was able to create only two versions of an automatic pistol. The mechanism of both worked under the influence of powder gases at the time of the shot. In one of the samples, a reliable locking of the shutter was achieved by lowering the barrel, it was this Browning pistol system that went into serial production by order of the US Army.
One of the brightest models of the famous gunsmith appeared in 1900. Automatic, compact, easy to use, convenient and quite powerful instance marked the beginning of the era of development of self-loading pistols. Browning weapons were unique in all technical characteristics. For a long time he was not worthy of analogues, even among the widely used at that time revolvers.
In addition to all the advantages, any weapon has a number of disadvantages. The main ones were the deformation of the mainspring, unreliable safety mechanism and the weak lethal force of the bullet. But this only affected the gradual refinement and improvement of the legendary pistol.
To date, there are many models that are the history of the creation of weapons, but Browning is one of the unique ones. The gun, the photo of which you see in the article, has such an appearance and design of all parts that you can easily characterize the development of the great gunsmith as the main stage in the development of self-loading weapons.