Is it fair to call him one of the all-time great weapon designers?

yes

>The, user. Just the.
no

who?

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Absolutely, yes.
>Mikhail was a 1 trick pony
>Stoner had a whole engineering team helping him
>Sam Colt bought most of his designs and did very fucking little himself, pretty much only figuring out the pawl mechanism for revolvers
>Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson literally bought ALL their designs
Pretty much the only other major firearms designer that even APPROACHES JMB in quality, quantity, or uniqueness of designs would be Simonov. And Simonov was both greatly assisted by other designers and engineers, and pretty much hand-groomed to be a firearms designer.

My vote goes to this absolute unit right here
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Chinn

>uhhh, Kalishnakov?
You mean the lucky guy who got picked as a figurehead and rode off the work and knowledge of his fellow Russians as well as the knowledge of German engineers?

>Kalashnikov
AK, PK, aaaaannnd not much else. Great designer, but not as prolific

Stoner deserves more credit considering that almost every single modern western standard issue rifle is based off of his systems.

You mean AK and upside-down AK?

>His engineering teams' systems
FTFY

I was trying to be generous kek

So how would Simonov outstrip Stoner considering his engineering team's designs don't persist today in the same capacity?

Most designers/"inventors" were one hit wonders, perfected other designs, ran teams or were just businessmen

Along with Browning, Lahti, Schmeisser and even Vollmer deserve mention

Kalashnikov himself pointed out that he owed a lot to other designers.
Browning on the other hand invented the entire concept of the pistol slide as a fucking side effect of also inventing the telescoping bolt, the concept of gas operation, and then dozens of successful individual designs, several of them still in use today.
Not bad for a guy born 164 years ago.

>one of
no, it's not fair. he's THE alltime GREATEST weapon designer. his designs revolutionized the world. from the first gas operated gun to the pistol that started WWI, his shit changed the earth.

not to mention he had no engineering background

>OP asked "weapons designer" -

Oppenheimer, Frisch and Peierls

General Shirō Ishii

Wernher von Braun

Sir William Armstrong
Reinhold Becker

Mikoyan and Gurevich
McDonnell and Douglas
Igor Sikorsky

For blades information is harder to find;
James Black
Applegate, Fairbairn and Skyes
blademag.com/blade-magazine-cutlery-hall-of-fame
We are not even touching on swords, polearms, and axes

Nor even getting into armor(mechanized and not), bows, ancient seige weapons, and Prometheus.

>one of
you mean the

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Unbased and faggot opinion

He is the greatest weapon designer of all time and there's literally no dispute to that.

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He's the Giacomo Agostini of firearms designers.

Paul Mauser is Browning level imo

basically Browning and Mauser are probably the most influential small arms designers of the last century.

Gerald Bull, no contest.

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Mauser deserves his due but I wouldn't consider him near Browning in terms of originality or variety.
I would list Mannlicher closer to Browning than Mauser.

no Jim Sullivan deserves all the credit for turning stoner's designs into something functional and mass producible

The three Mausers just took successful ideas from other designs and were great at marketing.

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Not true.
Browning's father was an experienced gunsmith and arms designer and taught his children.
Many Brownings followed in his footsteps and worked in gun design, repair, or sales.

>fudd
Reminder that you’re a tremendous faggot who’s using that word wrong

Where's the screencap of how every gun company today (browning, Winchester, etc) stems from the levergun? I think that explains it well.

>Oppenheimer
>Prometheus
I like you user.

being a gunsmith is not the same as being an engineer

Very based and Canada pilled
Shame the Israelis got him

Really?
No John Pederson?
The dude that even JMB called the best firearms inventor of his time?

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