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.

WWII Army Veteran Robert Shipe gets reunited with a BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) which is the weapon he used during combat ...

This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Melly Alazraki. The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was introduced as a fully automatic ...

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The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was the standard light machine gun of the U.S. military throughout WWII. Typically chambered for .30-06 ammunition and weighing between 13 and 24 pounds, BARs ...

John Moses Browning, the prolific small arms inventor responsible for such iconic guns as the M1911 semi-automatic pistol, the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and the M1917 water-cooled machine gun ...