But the majority of the museum exhibits are an enduring testimony to the towering genius of John Moses Browning himself. They include examples of the pistols, rifles, shotguns, machine-guns and cannon he conceived, all of which advanced the trade of the gunsmith and the development of reliable firearms almost beyond recognition.
It is unfortunate that the primary purpose of a pistol is to kill people, whether in self-defence or for any other reason, and the name Browning will figure in military history books in this context as well, for when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot and killed at Sarajevo in June 1914, the gun in the hands of a young Serbian student named Gavrilo Princip was a Browning/FN .32 calibre Model 1910 semi-automatic pistol.
And as the echoes of that shot died away, the train of events which culminated in the First World War was already under way.
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First published 2012 by Endeavour Press Ltd.
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