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Noun

machine rifle - light machine gun

assault gun, assault rifle - any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use

automatic firearm, automatic gun, automatic weapon - a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released

Browning automatic rifle, BAR - a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

machine gun - a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)

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to manufacture and market what, is considered by most students of military small arms, the world's first successful light machine gun--the Let Maskingevaer Madsen (Madsen Light Machine Rifle).

DANISH SMALL ARMS OF WORLD WAR II, PART I: "FRA KRAGS TIL SAHNEFRONT"

As a consequence, the United States Expeditionary Force was initially armed with the truly dreadful Chauchat Machine Rifle, chambered for the 8mm Lebel rimmed cartridge.

BAR: pride of the marine corps or one of John Browning's lesser designs? This classic full-auto perfectly fulfilled its original requirements, but less than adequately served in a LMG role for which it wasn't originally intended

It was with great interest that I read Richard Venola's May "Rounds Down-range." I'm sure he's aware of the .345 Machine Rifle designed by Frank Burton in the 1916-17 period.

Sentimental on self-loaders

While the excellent Lewis light machine gun was available at the time, the vast majority of American soldiers were equipped with French automatic arms, primarily the Hotchkiss Mitrailleuse Modele 1914 machine gun and the Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 (Chauchat) machine rifle.

THE MODEL 1909 BENET-MERCIE MACHINE RIFLE, PART 2: THE "DAYLIGHT" MACHINE GUN

The Light Machine Rifle used a variation of the rifle's unique action but suitably strengthened, and used a spring loaded magazine to improve feeding.

Madsen military small arms: the first & the last of their kind! Tiny Denmark had some idiosyncratic but moderately successful small arms designs that served in wars throughout the world

Performance of the new Lewis gun quickly overshadowed that of the Benet-Mercie machine rifle, the only other light automatic in widespread Allied use.

The Lewis Gun

Their squad automatic arm was the .30 caliber FN Type D machine rifle, a modified look-alike of the U.S.

Guns of the Korean War

military parlance as a "Machine Rifle" it was easily designed to be transportable and would fill the void between the effective--but heavy and cumbersome --belt-fed machine guns and the bolt-action service rifle.

THE MODEL 1909 BENET-MERCIE MACHINE RIFLE, PART 1: THE U.S. ARMY'S FIRST LIGHT MACHINE GUN

This concept, familiar from the Browning Auto-5, but rarely used to operate military firearms, is the key to understanding what became known as the Chauchat Machine Rifle.

The light machine guns of World War I

On May 1, 1917, the United States Army, which had entered the Allied war effort against Germany less than a month earlier, officially adopted a prototype "machine rifle" developed privately by genius firearms inventor John M.

AN Echo of WAR GENE

At time of the film the Army possessed only 1,100 machine guns including the Model 1909 Benet-Mercie Machine Rifle, Model 1904 Maxim and Model 1895 Colt machine guns.

Guns of the wild bunch