The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during...
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An automatic rifle is a type of autoloading rifle that is capable of fully automatic fire. Automatic rifles are generally select-fire weapons capable...
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and heavy M2 machine guns, the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Browning Auto-5 – the first semi-automatic shotgun. Some of these arms are still...
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manoeuvre warfare. Another pioneering weapon in this role was the Browning automatic rifle (BAR). Introduced late in World War I, it remained in front-line...
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The Huot Automatic Rifle was a Canadian World War I era light machine gun project. In 1916, the Canadian Expeditionary Force was desperately short of...
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The Browning BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company in Belgium. The rifle loads from a detachable box magazine...
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A semi-automatic rifle is an auto-loading rifle that fires a single round of ammunition at a time. It uses part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject...
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The Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle, also known as the semi automatic 22 or SA-22, is a takedown rifle produced by FN Herstal based on a John Browning patent...
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Model 1910 (designed by John Browning, built by FN) M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle "Outdoor Gear - Browning". www.browning.com. Retrieved 15 February 2024...
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The Colt Automatic Rifle or Colt Light Machine Gun is a 5.56 mm NATO, open-bolt, full-automatic-only firearm developed by Colt Defense. It is based on...
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The Browning Buck Mark is a semi-automatic pistol, made by the Browning Arms Company and chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. It has been produced...
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Select fire (redirect from Automatic burst)
Assault Rifles and Automatic Carbines. T. B. N. Enterprises. p. 225. Ballou, James L., Rock in a Hard Place: The Browning Automatic Rifle, Ontario, California:...
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agency Qionghai Bo'ao Airport, IATA code M1918 Browning automatic rifle Browning BAR, a Belgian rifle Bar (Aramaic), a patronymic prefix in Aramaic Bar...
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and M1908 Browning FN M1900 Browning FN M1903 Chamelot-Delvigne M1873, M1874 and M1884 Colt M1907 Army Special Mannlicher M1901 Mylonas rifle Nagant M1895...
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Ręczny karabin maszynowy wz. 28 (redirect from Browning RKM WZ 28)
The rkm wz. 28 or Browning wz. 28 is a Polish version of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. It was used as a light machine gun by the Polish Military...
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M1917 Browning machine gun, a family of water-cooled machine guns in .30-'06 M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, or its variants M1919 Browning machine...
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barrel FAL variants is essentially the same in concept as the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) or Bren, but the Bren was better suited to the role of a...
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Light Automatic Rifle) rifles. He is also known for modifying several of John Browning's firearms designs, including the 1931 Baby Browning and Browning Hi-Power...
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level. Many light machine guns (such as the Bren gun or the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle) were magazine-fed. Others, such as the Hotchkiss M1922, could...
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Winchester model 30 (redirect from Winchester Automatic Rifle)
capability as a possible alternative to the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). The Winchester Automatic Rifle (WAR) tested by the Ordnance Department in December...
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M15 Squad Automatic Weapon was a modified M14 developed as a replacement for the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle for use as a squad automatic weapon. As...
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semi-automatic rifles mentioned herein feature a rear-locking tilting bolt, as on the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun, the Browning Automatic Rifle (1918)...
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hand-trained rifle-caliber defensive machine guns became obsolete for air warfare (the .50 in/12.7 mm AN/M2 Browning and 20 mm AN/M2 automatic cannon had...
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In 1902, American gunsmith John Moses Browning developed the first successful semi-automatic shotgun, the Browning Auto-5, which was first manufactured...
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military started looking for a single automatic rifle to replace the M1 Garand, M1/M2 carbines, M1918 Browning automatic rifle, M3 "Grease Gun" and Thompson submachine...
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Kulsprutegevär m/40 (redirect from Kg m/40 automatic rifle)
Swedish version of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle known as the Kg m/21 afterward. For many years, it was assumed that the rifle was developed from the German...
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military started looking for a single automatic rifle to replace the M1 Garand, M1/M2 Carbines, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, M3 "Grease Gun" and Thompson submachine...
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similar device was later used for the Browning Automatic Rifle, a "cup" that supported the stock of the automatic rifle when held on the hip. The Standschütze...
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The Browning Automatic 5, most often Auto-5 or simply A-5, is a recoil-operated semi-automatic shotgun designed by John Browning and manufactured by Fabrique...
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ISBN 0-9707997-2-1: p. 46-49. Lorain, Piere (September 1979). "Le F.M. BAR" [The BAR automatic rifle]. La Gazette des Armes (in French). No. 74. p. 15.. Grant, Neil (2013)...
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