John Browning
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Sep 20, 2026
Robert WyattHOST
I would never shoot it today under carry optics or something like that, but...
Robert WyattHOST
Man, that 40 Smith & Wesson, it's such an interesting round to me because I think the place that it actually still holds value, and this is going to make all of the John Moses Browning to World War people die, is single stack.
Robert WyattHOST
I think a 40 Smith & Wesson is single stack because you can show up to a match and you can have major ammo and minor ammo.
Robert WyattHOST
And it's all the same bullet.
Michael MelitoHOST
I would throw in there, also known by 9 Kurtz or 9 Short.
Michael MelitoHOST
Is a rimless straight wall pistol cartridge that was developed by firearms designer John Moses Browning.
Michael MelitoHOST
Yes, that John Browning that designed all those other cool firearms.
Michael MelitoHOST
That John Moses Browning designed this cartridge as well.
Michael MelitoHOST
Cartridge headspace is on the mouth of the case.
Michael MelitoHOST
It was introduced in 1908.
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Michael MelitoHOST
That plus P, that's a NATO load.
Michael MelitoHOST
Let's say 115 grain at 1,200 for like a just range fodder, you know, bottom of the heap, bulk pack 9-millimeter.
David WalesNARRATOR
A gun as a gas engine.
David WalesNARRATOR
Another big advance was made by a third American, Mr. John M. Browning, who is responsible for the Colt gun.
David WalesNARRATOR
It was not a kick that set Browning to thinking.
David WalesNARRATOR
He looked upon a gun as an engine of the same order as an automobile engine, and really the resemblance is very close.
Dave WorkmanGUEST
But yeah, Bill, he was a brilliant guy.
Dave WorkmanGUEST
Bill Ruger, you know, John Moses Browning.
Dave WorkmanGUEST
I sit back in awe of these guys.
Tom GreshamHOST
Mm-hmm.
Andy EricksonHOST
I've never personally wondered that myself.
Nick O'ConnellGUEST
I mean, I don't think John Browning ever got laid, but when I think of Smith and Wesson, I think like...
Nick O'ConnellGUEST
No.
Nick O'ConnellGUEST
Those guys...
Nick O'ConnellGUEST
Camper to each other's cylinders.
Nick O'ConnellGUEST
You know what I'm saying?
Andy EricksonHOST
Who had more sex? John Browning, John Garand, or Eugene Stoner?
Nick O'ConnellGUEST
Ooh.
Dan GelernterHOST
A little too easy, I suppose.
Dan GelernterHOST
The .50 caliber bullet, .50 caliber designed by Browning, John Browning, was itself based on the .30-06, so you could say it was indirectly based on two things, but we already knew that bullets could pass the sound barrier, so it seemed to be a good starting point.
Dan GelernterHOST
Then, after all, the German rocket, the V-1, was also... based on a bullet shape.
Dan GelernterHOST
There seems to be this conception, at least it's suggested in the movie, The Right Stuff, a terrible movie as we've discussed, that we didn't know whether or not the sound barrier was breakable.
John PetrolinoGUEST
I'm pivoting a little bit here.
John PetrolinoGUEST
And It might be John Moses Browning, or it might be Caston Glock.
John PetrolinoGUEST
I don't really have, I don't, I can't give you like, that's a toss up between those two different guys.
John PetrolinoGUEST
And why do I want to meet them is because they are obviously pioneers.
Rob BeckmanHOST
Good job.
Rob BeckmanHOST
Cause I think it also kind of ties into everything we're talking about, about out of the box thinking.
Rob BeckmanHOST
And both of those were, you know, nobody thought, you know, John Moses Browning could make something, you know, like 1911 and, or have it around for over a hundred years.
Rob BeckmanHOST
And I'm sure Gaston Glock when he came and had a plastic pistol, um, you know, people laughed at him, but look at the industry now.
Jeremy PozderacHOST
So like those are fine.
Jeremy PozderacHOST
it's just, it's really just tilt lock barrels, which, but that's most, uh, because John Moses Browning was a fucking genius.
Jeremy PozderacHOST
That's most of the, the, the handguns that we use nowadays.
Jeremy PozderacHOST
So generally speaking, if it's tilt lock barrel, you need a booster to make it function properly.
David WalesNARRATOR
A gun as a gas engine.
David WalesNARRATOR
Another big advance was made by a third American, Mr. John M. Browning, who is responsible for the Colt gun.
David WalesNARRATOR
It was not a kick that set Browning to thinking.
David WalesNARRATOR
He looked upon a gun as an engine of the same order as an automobile engine, and really the resemblance is very close.
JonHOST
Winchester had already made the gun that won the West, the Model 1873, and Browning's design contributed to later developments that culminated with the still-beloved Model 1894, the most popular lever gun in the world.
JonHOST
Like Samuel Colt, John Browning's early work focused on refining existing designs.
JonHOST
After the Civil War, manufacturing was shifting away from single-shot muzzle-loaded rifles toward lever-action guns, where a shooter pushed a metal level surrounding the trigger downward to eject the spent cartridge and load a new round.
JonHOST
These rifles could fire much more rapidly than their muzzle-loaded relatives, and their designs allowed for greater recoil control and accuracy.
JonHOST
Weapons like the Spencer carbine and Winchester models 1873 and 1894 were instrumental in America's westward growth and ending the violence that plagued the boom towns of the Old West.
JonHOST
With the dawn of a new century, Browning Arms began to work on other types of weapons.
JonHOST
In 1905, John Browning released the Auto 5, the world's first semi-automatic shotgun that ejected shells without needing to pump a slide or open the weapon.
JonHOST
These guns and variants made by other American and European companies over the next decade were so effective that the Germans declared their use during the First World War to be inhumane and executed any Allied soldier caught carrying one.
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