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 ...

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The M1903 was the standard issue U.S. military rifle during World War I, and by the time the U.S. entered the war, over 843,000 had been manufactured. However, insufficient hardening of receivers ...

The recoil-operated, air-cooled M2 Browning is one of four machine guns on this list, as well as one of the oldest military weapons that are still in service — more than a century after its debut.

John Moses Browning, the inventor of the M1917, was one of the most prolific firearms developers of all time; he invented the M1911 .45-caliber handgun, the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and the ...