Eugene Reising, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEugene Reising
American firearm designer
Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1884
Date of Death: 21-Feb-1967
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Eugene Reising
- Eugene Reising (November 26, 1884 – February 21, 1967) was an American inventor who designed the M50 Reising submachine gun in 1938. Reising was a ranking competitive target shooter.
- An ordnance engineer, Reising was the recipient of more than 60 firearm patents.
- Following his work with Harrington & Richardson, he designed semi-automatic rifles for Mossberg & Sons, Marlin, Savage, and Stevens. Of Swedish ancestry from a family that came to Delaware in 1635, Reising was born at Port Jervis, New York.
- He was the son of a railroad engineer who died when Eugene Reising was an infant.
- Reising attended Lehigh University for three years, then worked as a cowboy in Texas and Mexico for a few years.
- On returning to the U.S.
- he went to work for Colt, testing and selling guns.
- He worked with John M.
- Browning on the development of the Colt Model 1911 pistol.
- Approximately 100,000 Reising submachineguns were manufactured and many were used in World War II.
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