Winchester debuted the Model 1903 chambered for the .22 Winchester Automatic cartridge. ... Patent number 659,786 for an autoloading rifle was granted to Browning on October 16, 1900.

Most American shooters know John Moses Browning as the inventor of the famous Model 94 Winchester lever action, M97 pump shotgun, Superposed over/under shotgun, Auto-5 autoloading shotgun, Colt 1911 ...

With so many firsts to his name, it should come as no surprise that John Browning designed the first truly reliable and successful semiautomatic rifle for civilian use. Remington introduced the gun ...

John Moses Browning received a patent for his semi-automatic Auto 5 in 1900 and two years later Fabrique Nationale’s factories in Belgium were producing the long-lasting design for civilian use.