NEW AUTOMATIC RIFLE.
I The hew BroWning automatic rifle and miadhiite ignin/ wfiioh the Americans will soon foe' uairig' in Europe; can be fired almost instantaneously without removing I ftfonvthe "shduldev. ' and single^ shots can '■•be fired at will. There is no* recoil. At -a demonstration m( Washington, the target was torn &> -pieties by "what deemed, to be a gust of bullets. " The observers were deeply impressed by the- machine gun and by the rapid dismantling and 1 re-afiseiribling of the weapon, which was
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 4
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84NEW AUTOMATIC RIFLE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 4
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