The Model 1918 BAR was finished in blue. Unlike the successive U.S. and foreign versions of the Browning Automatic Rifle, the M1918 BAR did not use a bipod, a separate pistol grip or a shoulder rest.

The first recorded combat use of the M1918 BAR in World War I was on ... The Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle was clearly the best automatic rifle developed and fielded during World War I.

Dubbed “Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918,” one of the men who received the weapon was 2nd Lt. Val Browning, son of the new rifle’s designer. He quickly put it to good use.

Dubbed “Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918,” one of the men who received the weapon was 2nd Lt. Val Browning, son of the new rifle’s designer. He quickly put it to good use.

The original Browning BAR was the M1918, a fully automatic light machine gun in ... In 1967, Browning introduced the next BAR, a semi-automatic sporting rifle for hunters—and that rifle is the direct ...

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 ...

Contrary to popular belief that we were armed only with broomsticks and pikes, I was equipped and fully trained to use, a Browning automatic rifle among other weapons including live hand grenades.