95: Who Belongs on the Gun Industry’s Mount Rushmore? We Settle the Debate
With Father’s Day on the horizon, Logan Metesh and Allen Forkner put together a Mount Rushmore of gun industry icons. But instead of presidents, they debate the most influential fathers of firearms. From engineering legends to marketing masterminds, this episode dives deep into the innovators who changed the gun world forever.
In this episode:
• Why John Moses Browning is the George Washington of gun design
• The genius of the M1911, the M2HB, and the Auto-5
• Kalashnikov’s battlefield brute: how the AK became a global icon
• AR vs AK: The Cold War showdown of the century
• Eugene Stoner’s space-age leap in firearms evolution
• Samuel Colt and the birth of firearms marketing
• The untold story of Rollin White and the bored-through cylinder
• Who really deserves that fourth spot on the mountain?
💬 Join the conversation and tell us who you would carve into the mountain. Don’t be surprised if we get arguments for Glock, Maxim, or even a surprise dark horse.
About the Author
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Hear the truth behind the trigger on this show that highlights the insanity, calamity and oddity of firearm history, collectibles and the crazy valuables. Every week historian Logan Metesh of High Caliber History joins Allen Forkner of GunBroker.com to discuss topics such as mobster favorites, collector pieces, war-time weapons, hunting gun history, competition firearms and more.
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