The gun was chambered in the plenty stout. A year later American military and Congressional leaders got to try out the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). He presented his prototype to Colt executives in February, 1917. BAR TimeĪs the United States felt the pull to war, Browning saw a need for a lighter machine gun that didn’t require several men to move, like the Maxim or British Vickers. This semi-automatic BAR was sold in RIAC's June 22-24 Sporting and Collector Auction. French troops weren’t impressed with its flimsy metal parts and its tendency to jam, dubbing it “damned and jammed.”
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and could fire in semi-automatic and full auto. When the war started, the French’s lightweight automatic weapon was the Chauchat, also known by its more awkward name, the Machine Rifle Model 1915 CSRG. The gun was Browning’s take on “walking fire,” the term given to a standard infantryman laying down covering fire as troops crossed “no man’s land.” 26-28 Premier Auction.Ī semi-automatic version of the BAR is available in Rock Island Auction Company’s June 22-24 Sporting and Collector Auction, and a full auto BAR will be on offer in the August Premier Auction. A semi-automatic BAR was sold in RIAC's June 22-24 Sporting and Collector Auction. John Moses Browning examines his design of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). military arsenal for both world wars and well into the second half of the 20th century. Like the M1911, the BAR would be a key part of the U.S.
He also created machine guns, including the focus of this article: the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). By the end of the century he was perfecting the self-loading firearm, while also designing the Winchester 1894, the Browning Auto-5 shotgun, and Winchester 1897 pump action shotgun among numerous others.Īs the 20th century began and inched toward war, Browning invented a number of semi-automatic pistols for Colt, including the M1911 that would be used in both world wars and remains a firearms mainstay to this day. He had already earned the first of his 128 firearms patents in 1879. In 1885, Browning was just getting started. This full auto Browning Automatic Rifle will be on offer in Rock Island Auction Company's August Premier Auction. The British suffered the bloodiest day in their military history on the opening day of 1916’s Somme offensive, when 21,000 British soldiers were cut down by fire from the Spandau, the German version of Maxim’s machine gun. It proved Maxim’s friend prophetic, providing a wall of lead from both sides in World War I. The Maxim gun could fire 600 rounds per minute and was put to good use in the Russo-Japanese War. Maxim invented the single barrel machine gun in 1885.
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