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Browning Arms Company was founded in Utah
Utah

The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896....
 in 1927. It offers a wide variety of firearm
Firearm

A firearm is a tool that projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined combustion of a propellant....
s, including shotgun
Shotgun

A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called lead shot, or a solid projectile called a shotgun slug....
s, rifle
Rifle

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls....
s, pistols, and rimfire firearm
Firearm

A firearm is a tool that projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined combustion of a propellant....
s. They also offer sport bow
Bow (weapon)

A bow is a weapon that projects arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow. Essentially, it is a form of Spring . As the bow is drawn, energy is stored in the limbs of the bow and transformed into rapid motion when the string is released, with the string transferring this force to the arrow....
s.

The company was founded to market the sporting (non-military) designs of John Browning
John Browning

John Moses Browning , born in Ogden, Utah, was an United States firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, Cartridge , and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world....
, one of the more prolific firearms inventors. Nearly all of John Browning's designs have been manufactured by other companies, including Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms Company

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent United States maker of semi-automatic firearm during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
, Colt
Colt's Manufacturing Company

Colt's Manufacturing Company is a United States firearms manufacturer founded in 1847. It is best known for the engineering, production, and marketing of dozens of different firearms over the later half of the 19th and the 20th century....
, Remington
Remington Arms

Remington Arms is a major American manufacturer of rifles, shotguns, other firearms, revolvers and ammunition. They also license the Remington name to hunting apparel, Arctic Cat ATV's, and other hunting and shooting products manufactured by other companies....
, Fabrique Nationale de Herstal
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often abbreviated as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a Belgium manufacturer of firearms. The official company name is FN Herstal....
 of Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
, and Miroku.






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Browning Arms Company was founded in Utah
Utah

The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896....
 in 1927. It offers a wide variety of firearm
Firearm

A firearm is a tool that projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined combustion of a propellant....
s, including shotgun
Shotgun

A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called lead shot, or a solid projectile called a shotgun slug....
s, rifle
Rifle

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls....
s, pistols, and rimfire firearm
Firearm

A firearm is a tool that projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined combustion of a propellant....
s. They also offer sport bow
Bow (weapon)

A bow is a weapon that projects arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow. Essentially, it is a form of Spring . As the bow is drawn, energy is stored in the limbs of the bow and transformed into rapid motion when the string is released, with the string transferring this force to the arrow....
s.

The company was founded to market the sporting (non-military) designs of John Browning
John Browning

John Moses Browning , born in Ogden, Utah, was an United States firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, Cartridge , and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world....
, one of the more prolific firearms inventors. Nearly all of John Browning's designs have been manufactured by other companies, including Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms Company

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent United States maker of semi-automatic firearm during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
, Colt
Colt's Manufacturing Company

Colt's Manufacturing Company is a United States firearms manufacturer founded in 1847. It is best known for the engineering, production, and marketing of dozens of different firearms over the later half of the 19th and the 20th century....
, Remington
Remington Arms

Remington Arms is a major American manufacturer of rifles, shotguns, other firearms, revolvers and ammunition. They also license the Remington name to hunting apparel, Arctic Cat ATV's, and other hunting and shooting products manufactured by other companies....
, Fabrique Nationale de Herstal
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often abbreviated as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a Belgium manufacturer of firearms. The official company name is FN Herstal....
 of Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
, and Miroku. Browning is currently a fully-owned subsidiary of Fabrique Nationale de Herstal.

Browning Arms Company is best known for the Browning BPS shotgun, the A-Bolt
Browning A-Bolt

The A-Bolt Rifle is a bolt-action rifle designed by the American Browning Arms Company. It is manufactured by Miroku Corp in Japan. The A-Bolt replaced the Browning BBR in 1984....
 rifle, X-Bolt rifle, the Auto-5 semi-automatic shotgun
Semi-automatic shotgun

A semi-automatic shotgun is a form of shotgun that is able to fire a cartridge after every trigger squeeze, without any manual chambering of another round being required....
, the BAR semi-automatic sporting rifle
Semi-automatic rifle

A semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled. They may be operated by a number of mechanisms, all of which derive their power from the explosion of the powder in the cartridge that also fires the bullet....
, and the Hi-Power
Browning Hi-Power

The Browning Hi-Power is a single action, 9x19mm Parabellum semi-automatic firearm pistol. It is based on ideas conceived and patented in 1922 by American firearms inventor John Browning, and later patented by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal of Herstal, Belgium....
 9mm pistol. Browning also manufactures a set of trap
Trap shooting

Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting . The others are Skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic Trap, Double Trap , Down-The-Line, and Nordic Trap....
 shotguns in the Cynergy series.

Browning also sells a wide variety of non-firearms outdoors products, such as gun safes, knives, shooting accessories and clothing.

Firearms Products


Pistols

  • Browning BDM
    Browning BDM

    The Browning BDM is a semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by the Browning Arms Company up until production ceased in 1998. Similar in appearance to Browning's P-35 model "Browning Hi-Power" pistol, the BDM was actually a new design created to compete in service trials as a standard issue pistol for the United States Federal Burea...
  • Browning Hi-Power
    Browning Hi-Power

    The Browning Hi-Power is a single action, 9x19mm Parabellum semi-automatic firearm pistol. It is based on ideas conceived and patented in 1922 by American firearms inventor John Browning, and later patented by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal of Herstal, Belgium....
  • Browning Buck Mark
    Browning Buck Mark

    The Browning Buck Mark is a semi-automatic pistol for .22 LR cartridges, made by the Browning Arms Company. It began production in 1985 and is still actively produced....


Rifles

  • Browning X-Bolt
  • Browning A-Bolt
    Browning A-Bolt

    The A-Bolt Rifle is a bolt-action rifle designed by the American Browning Arms Company. It is manufactured by Miroku Corp in Japan. The A-Bolt replaced the Browning BBR in 1984....
  • Browning BLR
    Browning BLR

    The Browning BLR is a lever action hunting rifle. It is manufactured by Browning Arms Company, and comes in many different variations: Chambered from .22-250 Remington to .325 WSM to .450 Marlin....
  • Browning BAR
    Browning BAR

    The BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company first in Belgium and later in Japan. The rifle loads from a box magazine detachable from a hinged floor plate....
  • Browning BL-22
  • Browning T-Bolt


Shotguns

  • Browning Auto-5
    Browning Auto-5

    The Browning Automatic 5, most often Auto-5 or simply A-5, is a Recoil operation autoloading shotgun designed by John Browning. It was the first successful autoloading shotgun designed and remained in production until 1998....
  • Browning BPS
  • Cynergy
    Cynergy Shotgun

    Browning Cynergy Over and Under Shotgun. Browning Arms Company introduced the Cynergy Over and Under Shotgun in 2004. It is considered by most to be the first over and under to depart from the basic design criteria that had been associated with over and unders since the turn of the last century....
  • Browning Citori
    Browning Citori

    The Browning Citori is a double-barreled shotgun shotgun of the "over and under" type, with one barrel above the other.The Citori is manufactured in a wide variety of models, styles, and Gauge to accommodate enthusiasts of clay target games such as trap shooting, skeet shooting, and sporting clays, and also upland hunting and waterfowl hun...
  • Browning Superposed
    Browning Superposed

    The Browning Superposed was the first over-under shotgun design to be produced and the last firearm to be designed by John Browning. The Superposed introduced a wide variety of innovations including the single select trigger and over-under design....
  • BT-99
  • Gold


Browning Footwear

Browning introduced a line of hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
 boots in 1968 and continued to design and manufacture footwear
Footwear

Footwear consists of garments worn on the foot, for protective clothing against the environment, and adornment. Socks and other hosiery are worn between the feet and the footwear, except for Sandal s and flip flops ....
 through outside vendors until 2001. In that year, a license agreement was reached with Connecticut based H.H. Brown Shoe Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway is a list of conglomerates holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies....
, to manufacture Browning Footwear.

The product line included the John M. Browning collection, Field and Game series, and sporting and waterfowl
Waterfowl

Waterfowl are certain wildfowl of the order Anseriformes, especially members of the family Anatidae, which includes ducks, goose, and swans.They are strong swimmers with medium to large bodies....
 lines. The line has grown to include Kangaroo leather boots, Rubber boots and waders, and upland game boots.

See also

  • FN Model 1910
    FN Model 1910

    The FN Model 1910 was a Blowback -operated, Semi-automatic self-loading pistol designed by John Browning and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal of Belgium....
     (designed by John Browning, built by FN)
  • M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle


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