Most Important Firearm Inventors:

[Duce]

While the 11 most important guns in history is a good read, the most important firearm inventors in history is more interesting. Here are some I think that change history: Browning, Mauser, Stoner, Kalashnikov, Ferguson {first successful breech loading military rifle} Colt {percussion revolver}, Smith and Wesson {bored thru revolver cylinder} Maxim, Garand, Williams {.30 carbine} Borchardt {semi auto pistol}. I know there are more.........<><Duce

 

[giovani]

Flobert , for the 22 rim fire cartridge

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I know there are more

Indeed there are. (BTW, you forgot Indiana's own Dr. Richard J. Gatling, for shame!!!!)

I submit a dozen (I have others) that you missed in no particular order:

1. John Pederson--John M. Browning called Pederson the greatest gun designer in the world, very high praise.

2. Alexi I. Sudayev--the designer of the PPS SMG and the 7.62X39mm cartridge (which Sudavey used in the AS-44, his assault rifle).

3. Misha T. Kalashinkov--Ak-47, QED.

4. Fedor Tokarev--his pistols and rifles, and a camera (no, really).

5. Sergei G. Simonv--CKC

6. Sergei Mosin--the Mosin rifle, where would INGO be without Mr. Mosin "Eye seen a Mozen for sale and eye shot it and everyone was looking at me."

7. Georgi Shpagin--PPSh41/DShK HMG

8. Vasily Degtyarev--DP-28 LMG, DShK HMG

9. Hugo Schmeisser--Mkb42 (later the MP-44/StG44/Gerat 06) and the AK-47

10. Heinrich Vollmer--MP-38/MP-40

11. Ernest Vervier--MAG the greatest MMG/UMG of all time

12. Stefan K. Janson--EM-2, aka the "Janson Rifle", underrated and always overlooked so I put him on the list.

 

[pokersamurai]

How about the anonymous Chinese dude who over a thousand years ago first stuffed rocks into a tube filled with gunpowder and shot them at someone else.

I think he made a fairly large contribution to firearms development.

 

[42769vette]

I think John M Browning is the top of everyones list. He was ahead of his time in shotguns, pistols, full auto

#2 for me is stoner
#3 for me is Kalashinkov

 

[Hondo]

Samuel Colt

John Garrand

Marshall "Carbine" Williams

 

[Sylvain]

Richard Hi Point and Thomas Xd come to mind.And of course the best of all who invented revolutionary designs ... Mr.Will Hayden!

 

[42769vette]

Richard Hi Point and Thomas Xd come to mind.And of course the best of all who invented revolutionary designs ... Mr.Will Hayden!

Ya I forgot about Will.

HE IS A GAME CHANGER

 

[chibicascade]

is Georg Luger worth mentioning? I know his design was based off of Borchardt's, but still...

 

[Sylvain]

Ya I forgot about Will.

HE IS A GAME CHANGER

Sure is!
We wouldn't have sniper AK47 rifles without him.
He's a genious for having the idea of putting a longer barrel and a bipod on a classic AK.

He even invented the M16 using a simple AR15 converted to shoot in full auto.Also a silencer for shotguns if i recall correctly.And many others ...

 

[42769vette]

Sure is!
We wouldn't have sniper AK47 rifles without him.
He's a genious for having the idea of putting a longer barrel and a bipod on a classic AK.

He even invented the M16 using a simple AR15 converted to shoot in full auto.Also a silencer for shotguns if i recall correctly.And many others ...

and dont forget the piston driven ar

 

[EOD Guy]

Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling. His design spits lead faster than anything else...if you don't count the Metal Storm contraption.

 

[Sylvain]

I think many inventors are unknown, like the guy who invented rifling on barrels.
All guns (well almost) from main battle tanks to small auto-pistols use this design since he invented it.But I cant find his name.

Same for all the people who helped design the cartdrige as we know it today.It's not one person but many people using the design of the previous guy and making it a bit better.

Without the musquet and the invention of the rifling you dont have the new rifles that we have today.
Without the invention of the flint gun you dont have the musquet ... etc.

 

[chibicascade]

Sure is!
We wouldn't have sniper AK47 rifles without him.
He's a genious for having the idea of putting a longer barrel and a bipod on a classic AK.

He even invented the M16 using a simple AR15 converted to shoot in full auto.Also a silencer for shotguns if i recall correctly.And many others ...

Don't be alarmed, but I heard he once tied 3 shotguns together and made a minigun.

 

[giovani]

The discovery of fulminates by Edward charles howard.

The use of fulminate of mercury to create the first percussion cap by Rev. Alexander John Forsyth.

 

[Duce]

Since we've drifted a little south of center.........Let's not forget Henery Minnie, pronounced, Min eehhh, the inventor of the minie ball. It made the Civil War one of the deadliest in history......................<><Duce

 

[Excalibur]

What about the guy who invented smokeless powder? Or whoever thought of the idea of rifled barrels?

 

[quicksdraw]

How about John T. Thompson, who gave us the "Chicago Typewriter".

 

[giovani]

What about the guy who invented smokeless powder? Or whoever thought of the idea of rifled barrels?

Alfred nobel invented ballistite which was the parent of most modern powders.

 

[indiucky]

The man who invented the "Bessemer Steel" process...(I think his name was "Bessemer"). Without the ability to strengthen steel, smokeless powder would have done no good as no firearm would have been strong enough to handle it.

IMHO ofcourse lest my comments be construed as "testy" or religous in nature.