John M. Browning of Ogden, Utah, foresaw the need for lighter machine guns and took a working example of his new automatic rifle to Hartford, Conn., to demonstrate to the directors of Colt’s on ...

From Bruce Canfield's "U.S. Model of 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle": By the time of the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918, a total of 52,238 Browning Automatic Rifles had been delivered to the government ...

The result was the Browning Automatic Rifle, one of the most influential and frequently-used machine guns ever designed. “For nearly fifty years the hard-hitting, mobile Browning Automatic Rifle ...

The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was introduced as a fully automatic infantry rifle at the end of World War I. It was first deployed in combat in September 1918, according to the Survey of U ...

45 ACP pistol, the M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun, and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), but his fertile mind also produced truckloads of designs for what we would today consider to be sporting ...

In this regard, the SAW filled the void created by the retirement of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (e.g. M-14E2/M16A1) had failed as viable ...

The weapon was designated as the Browning Automatic Rifle, Model of 1918, .30 Caliber, or the BAR. This machine gun was a gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine fed hand held weapon. It saw service at ...

The Browning BAR is one of the three semi-automatic rifles on this list that is generally not considered an MSR. Though the modern iteration of the BAR is marketed as a hunting rifle, it traces ...

1st Class Donald Mendoza was a small man with a big gun. The 119-pound California native lugged a 16-pound Browning automatic rifle through the frozen hills, dodging snipers and searching for ...