DETAILED NOTES ON SEMI AUTOMATIC BAR

“On May perhaps 1, 1917, the Secretary of War convened an ordnance panel to check and propose for adoption a light-weight machine gun or automatic rifle. Browning’s was speedily adopted. It had been often called the Browning Automatic Rifle’ and was shortly referred to generally by its initials ‘B-A-R.’ The BAR was chambered for that conv