DETAILED NOTES ON SEMI AUTOMATIC BAR

“On May possibly 1, 1917, the Secretary of War convened an ordnance panel to check and suggest for adoption a light-weight machine gun or automatic rifle. Browning’s was promptly adopted. It was often called the Browning Automatic Rifle’ and was shortly referred to largely by its initials ‘B-A-R.’ The BAR was chambered with the common M19