All John M Browning's guns were over engineered because they were designed during the mechanical age. Think about it. Contemporary transportation was a buckboard.
All of Browning's guns - Winchesters, Colts, machineguns, the BAR were way more complicated to manufacture than current designs, but they showed the way. Future designers just took the key ideas and adapted other materials to the unstressed parts.
All of Browning's guns - Winchesters, Colts, machineguns, the BAR were way more complicated to manufacture than current designs, but they showed the way. Future designers just took the key ideas and adapted other materials to the unstressed parts.
