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The spring-powered cartridge casing extractor is contained in the bolt and a fixed ejector is installed. The bolt is locked by a rising bolt lock. John Browning demonstrated the rifle to the United States Government shortly before America. The M1918 is a selective fire, air-cooled automatic rifle using a gas-operated long-stroke piston rod actuated by propellant gases bled through a vent in the barrel. 30, Automatic, Browning, M1918 and colloquially known as the BAR, was America’s first domestic light machine gun. The underside edge of the magazine well is stamped with "LAW ENFORCEMENT, ATHENS GA.". Our Assessment: Though not particularly light at more than 15 pounds, the Browning Automatic Rifle, officially the Rifle, Caliber. It comes with one 20 round box magazine and a bipod. The top of the receiver is stamped with a small Eagle Head proof and the breech end of the barrel is stamped with a small Ordnance Bomb proof mark. It is fitted with a WWII New England Firearms replacement barrel marked "NE-7/Ordnance Shell and Flame proof/6-43" with a WWII flash-hider and bipod. Ohio Ordnance Works still manufactures a reproduction of the popular BAR. Browning in 1917 and was first used in WWI up until the Vietnam War. The Browning Automatic Rifle is one of the most iconic rifles from WWII. BY WINCHESTER -/118835/- PATENT APPLIED FOR - ". Browning Automatic Rifle Model 1918 Reproductions. The receiver is marked: "BROWNING AUTOMATIC RIFLE/- U.S. This is a custom manufactured non-firing USGI Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2 metal and wood replica gun built on a BATF approved new made display receiver complete with the with correct adjustable bipod, wood butt stock, flash hider, and barrel together with a deactivated genuine 20 round magazine and a new made leather sling. It has the later BAR adjustable rear sight, with a wood forend and a later WWII 1918A2 pattern fiberglass buttstock with the folding shoulder support buttplate, and the late pattern magazine guards. This example has been arsenal refurbished as the top of the receiver is stamped with "AA" indicating rebuild by Augusta Arsenal for WWII/Korea and then eventually sold by the government as a Foreign Military Sale as it is listed as a "Sales Sample Only". They were extremely reliable and highly accurate with the sole drawback being their 20 round magazine. It proved to be a highly effective combat assault rifle and light machine gun, that was reissued in WWII and even into Korea and Vietnam.

These rifles were originally developed and issued to the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in France during WWI. This is a fine example of a WWI Winchester Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) manufactured in 1918.