30-’06 Sprg. You read that right: “Browning Machine Rifle.” The name of the legendary BAR, or “Browning Automatic Rifle,” took a little time to evolve in the common parlance of American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

the M1919 air-cooled machine gun and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). Although Browning didn’t invent the machine gun, he and his brother Matthew developed the first gas-operating system ...