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John Moses Browning
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Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Took the StG and M1, combined them, and made them indestructible.

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And made it so a monkey could manufacture it. Less than accurate but that's not what it was meant for.

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Yup. The numbers speak for themselves. It's not really even close, no other single person has had the impact on firearms that he has had.

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he wouldnt have made it if the research on smaller cartridges werent already pushed forward by the germans. he had a very significant place but on his own isnt the most important one.

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Honorable mention for Eugene Stoner for his work on the AR. And Hugo Schmeisser for the StG 44.

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Richard Jordan Gatling, because now you can kill whole BUNCHES of motherfuckers!

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Browning's M-2 50 cal has been in service for a century with no near competitor. Give the AK another quarter century to see if it's still a current issue.

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Not to mention the 1911, Browning HP and all current pistols using the delayed blow back action...

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M2 appears in a lot of MoH citations, there's no other weapon like it. A competent operator can change the battlefield.

Audey Murphy & Paul Smith for example

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Missing Eugene Stoner.

Yeah I definitely missed a couple, should have added Kalashnikov too in retrospect.

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Jerome quantavious Jefferson Jones. That nigga superglue a laser pointer and flashlight to a glawk fowty prolem solva! Kang!

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Maybe Carl Norden, the Dutch engineer who invented the

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Honorable mentioners: Reginald Sheperd and Harold Turpi for the brilliantly simplistic design and easy manufacturing of the Sten gun..

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FN Herstal

God made man, Samuel colt made man equal, John Brown made one man equal to many.

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Ching chong he chinese. He invent firearm.

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