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NRA Gun Of The Week: Gun Of The Week: Browning A5 Wicked Wing

NRA Gun Of The Week: Gun Of The Week: Browning A5 Wicked Wing

To fully understand today's A5, let's look back to the year 1899, four years before the first Browning Auto-5 shipped. Like many of today's guns, this story begins at the workbench of John Moses Browning. Browning knew at the time that he had a revolutionary idea, and it was one that he was not willing to give up on. He first brought his shotgun concept to Winchester, with no success. Eventually, Browning took his novel plans to FN of Belgium where a contract was agreed upon in 1902. The following year, FN shipped the world's first commercially successful semi-automatic shotgun, the Auto-5. Read More

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