Le Monsieur "John Browning" il n'est pas un Belgique. Idaho, IIRC.
Browning had nothing to do with the M240 or M249. They're based off the German MG42, which was emphatically NOT a Browning design.
Browning designed the M1919/M2 and similar. His last squad-auto-use design was the Browning Automatic Rifle.