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I posted about this a while ago but it got little feedback so I'm making sure this time to add in the title what John Browning was so that others who don't know him by name can have a grasp at would a TL without him could be like. For those who do not know he was a firearms designer born in Utah to Mormon parents. He is considered by some to be the Davinci of firearms and is credited with designing several Winchester leaver action rifles, the 1911 handgun, the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and dozens of others.
So let’s say that John Browning dies as a child due to a gun related accident and shies the rest of his family away from gunsmithing. How would the development of weapon designing, marketing, and use in warfare change.