PIONEERS OF FIREARMS
John M. Browning - wizard of the modern firearms and pioneered the first breech-loading single shot rifles which was adopted by Winchester.
Samuel Colt - patented the first practical revolver and maker of the Colt Peace Maker, a famous revolver in the history.
Henry Deringer- he gave his namr to whole classes of rifles and pistols.
Alexander John Forsyth - Father of the Percussion Powder.
Major Uzeil Gal - an Israel Army who designed UZI in the year 1950.
Colonel Calvin H. Goddard, M.D. - Father of Modern Ballistics, OS, US Army.
John C. Garand- Designed and invented the Semi automatic US Rifle cal. 30 M1 Garand.
George Hyde - a well known expert in the field of SMG/grease gun, developed in 1941. M3A1 (USA)
Gordon Ingram- invented the Ingrams. Designed in 1964. (USA)
Michael Kalashnikov - designed the AK 47 (Automat Kalashnikova 47), adopted by the Russian Army in 1951.
George Luger - designed the Luger MP08 (Germany).
John M. Marlin - founder of Marlin Firearms company.
Paul Mauser- invented and designed Mauser M1912. (Germany)
James Wolfe Ripley - stimulated the development of the model 1855 rifle-musket, the first arm of its kind ever produced.
Eliphalet Remington - one of the early rifle makers.
Elisha King Root -designed a machinery for making Colt firearms.
Horace Smith - founded the great Smith and Wesson, pioneered the making of the breech- loading rifle.
L. C. Smith - developed shotgun bearing his name, (now called Ithaca Gun Company)
Eugene Stoner - designed the US M16 Armalite under licensed by Colt Company from July 1959 onwards.
John T. Thompson- developed in the course of World War 1 the Thompson M1A1 and model 1928 A1 (USA). Pioneered the making of Thompson SMG.
Daniel B. Wesson - associates of Smith in the manufacture of new cartridges and revolvers.
David "Carbine"Williams - maker of the first known Carbine.
Carl Walter - designed theWlter MP38.
Oliver F. Winchester - one of the earliest rifle and pistol markers.
Benjamin Robins - Father of Modrrn Gunnery. A British Engineer who conducted many experiments in interior Ballistics.
Niccolo Tartaglia - an Italian mathematician who published work on gunnery, claimed that no part of the path of a projectile could be a straight line and that the greater the velocity of the projectiles, the flatter its path.
Harold Eugene Edgerton - the development of high-speed photography and of the stroboscope by the American Engineer and the others has led to greater understanding in all three branches of Ballistics.
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RandomArticles published in here arent mine. These are from my review notes when I was preparing for the licensure examinations in 2017.
