| |  | Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 5, 1840 - November 24, 1916) was the inventor of the Maxim Gun in 1881, the first portable, fully automatic... |  | John Moses Browning (January 21 or January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed my... |  | Lieutenant General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (born November 10, 1919) is a famous Russian gun designer, most famous for his AK-47,... |  | Eli Whitney was an American inventor. |  | Samuel Colt (born Hartford, Connecticut July 19, 1814 - died Hartford, Connecticut January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist. He... |  | John Douglas Pedersen was a prolific arms designer who worked for Remington Arms, and later for the United States Government. Born in Denmark, he... |  | Gaston Glock (1929-) is an Austrian engineer, and founder of firearms company Glock. The Glock "safe-action" pistol is well-regarded and has often... |  | Aimo Johannes Lahti was a self-taught Finnish weapons designer. Out of the 50 weapons that he designed, the best known is the Suomi M-31 SMG. Other... |  | Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (January 2, 1880, Tula - January 16, 1949, Moscow) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering... |  | Val Allen Browning (20 August 1895-1994) was a noted Utah industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator. His grandfather,... | |
