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Smaller incarnations of full-size guns aren’t necessarily a recent phenomenon-nor are full-size models that have been chambered in substantially smaller calibers. Browning took the concept to a different level, though, with the release of its miniaturized 1911-22.

Friends of NRA 2011 Gun of the Year: Colt 1911

The Browning 1911-22 is true to the lines of the original, and a lot of fun to shoot.

Senior Executive Editor Brian Sheetz was one of the first gun writers to test Browning's new 1911 .380 caliber pistol. Watch the video here.

His firearms have figured significantly in history for more than a century, but John Moses Browning had a method of inventing that is only now being fully understood—and may come as quite a surprise.