June 21 in Firearms History

Jonathan Browning
October 22, 1805 – June 21, 1879
American inventor/ gunsmith

born in Tennessee
producing firearms independently by 1831
living in Quincy, Illinois
invented a "sliding breech" repeating rifle also called a Harmonica gun between 1834 and 1842

June 21, 1909The application for a patent on a 25 caliber semi-automatic pistol was filed.
It has been manufactured and sold by both FN and Colt.
It was part of the Browning Arms Company line from 1955 to 1969.

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Rex Applegate
June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998

• American military officer
• worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
• 1941 - developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
•  served as the personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
•  advisor to the government of Mexico "Honorary General"
• Tought John Wayne how to shoot
•  technical advisor on the set of The Alamo
• Applegate was said to be the source and inspiration for several of Ian Fleming's characters in the James Bond novels
• 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
  a classic manual of Western-style hand-to-hand combat.
• 1976 Kill or Get Killed was published by the US Marine Corps as Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication 12-80
  
• 1941  Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
• 1993 - Combat Use of the Double-Edged Fighting Knife

William RugerBorn June 21, 1916 – July 6, 2002

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John Taliaferro Thompson
Dec 31, 1860 – June 21, 1940

USA

• Thompson submachine gun 1920
• One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military