Who is your holy trinity of firearms?

[Spanky46151]

Who are your top 3 picks for most important influences in firearm history?
Feel free to use logical thinking or get all emotional about it. There is no wrong, this is strictly your opinion and not open for debate...yeah, right! lol

I'm going with;
1) John Moses Browning
2) Sam Colt
3) Gaston Glock

 

[Colt556]

JMB FTW!

 

[Manatee]

Mikhail Kalishnikov, Paul Mauser, John Moses Browning, (with special mention to Gene Stoner)

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

How bout the chinese guy who invented gunpowder, whoever first mounted up a mini cannon to a stick so one man could hold it, and a fellow named Henry.

 

[jb1911]

John Moses Browning



Eugene Stoner
Gaston Glock

 

[churchmouse]

John M. Browning
Sam Colt
Mr. Garand

Honorable mention To all the engineers at Springfield for their fine work over the years.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

John Moses Browning

John R. Pederson (John Browning's favorite gun inventor--Browning said that Pederson was "was the greatest gun designer in the world")

Hugo Schmeisser (inventor of the AK-47 and many other lasting designs)

 

[churchmouse]

John Moses Browning

John R. Pederson (John Browning's favorite gun inventor--Browning said that Pederson was "was the greatest gun designer in the world")

Hugo Schmeisser (inventor of the AK-47 and many other lasting designs)

 

[Kirk Freeman]

What I do?

 

[Spanky46151]

What I do?

I'm guessing the whole "Who made it? debate over the AK-47. For the record, I'm with you, Kalashnikov "invented" modifications. I still think he's a demi-god, but he is standing on the shoulders of his worker.

 

[Mosinguy]

George Jennings

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I know the Russians may never say anything as Misha is not yet left this mortal coil, but the gun culture knows that Hugo, not Misha, is behind the AK-47 and it should be the AC-47.

Once Misha is dead I think we will have a reexamination of the history of the AK-47 . . . and won't the fanboys be angry.

 

[Spanky46151]

George Jennings

Hell yeah! (If we were focusing only on zinc alloy models)

 

[Manatee]

I know the Russians may never say anything as Misha is not yet left this mortal coil, but the gun culture knows that Hugo, not Misha, is behind the AK-47 and it should be the AC-47.

Once Misha is dead I think we will have a reexamination of the history of the AK-47 . . . and won't the fanboys be angry.

Don't own one, never have.

But, in 100 years, will space exploration be credited to Werner von Braun or....

....Gene Rodenberry?



Hah.

Who really cares?


ps. I never knew him well enough to use the familiar sobriquet.

 

[KPierce]

Maestro Bartolomeo Beretta
John Moses Browning
Eugene Morris Stoner

 

[The Bubba Effect]

John
Moses
&
Browning

 

[Winamac]

1) John Garand
2) Gene Stoner
3) John Browning

Not necessarily in that order.

 

[melensdad]

1 - John Browning (the man with the most 1911 patents)
2 - Sid Woodcock (the man with the 2nd most 1911 patents, and the father of all stainless steel pistols, all compact 1911s, and most modern 1911s)
3 - Col Jeff Cooper (the father of modern combat handgunning)

 

[churchmouse]

I'm guessing the whole "Who made it? debate over the AK-47. For the record, I'm with you, Kalashnikov "invented" modifications. I still think he's a demi-god, but he is standing on the shoulders of his worker.

I was waiting for the landslide of emotion from the 7.62X39 folks.

 

[red_zr24x4]

John M. Browning
Sam Colt
Mr. Garand

Honorable mention To all the engineers at Springfield for their fine work over the years.

I'm going with these guys also