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 ... The M1 Garand was the standard U.S. Army infantry rifle during the Second World War, during which an estimated 5.4 million were manufactured.