John Pedersen (arms designer)

John Douglas Pedersen
BornMay 21, 1881
Grand Island, Nebraska
DiedMay 23, 1951(1951-05-23) (aged 70)
Cottonwood, Arizona
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArms designer
Known forPedersen device

John Douglas Pedersen (May 21, 1881 – May 23, 1951) was a prolific arms designer who worked for Remington Arms, and later for the United States Government. Famed gun designer John Moses Browning told Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher of U.S. Army Ordnance that Pedersen "was the greatest gun designer in the world".[1][2]

  1. ^ Julian S. Hatcher, Hatcher's Notebook, Military Service Publishing Co., 1947. on page 383; Julian S. Hatcher, The Book of the Garand, Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1948, on p. 67.
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