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To: Tijeras_Slim
Did he invent the over under?

No question about his genius.

25 posted on 10/20/2012 8:45:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: TigersEye

He made the first mass production affordable one.


27 posted on 10/21/2012 6:22:38 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: TigersEye; Tijeras_Slim
Did he invent the over under?

No question about his genius.


Not quite. However, some of the design work of his father, Jonathan Browning, certainly improved the boxlock double-barreled shotgun, then a percussion ignition design, as well as introducing some of the first repeating rifle, pistol and shotgun designs.

Genius ran in that family.


38 posted on 05/27/2015 7:17:44 AM PDT by archy
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