The Devil’s Paintbrush

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posted on February 28, 2014
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This week on “American Rifleman Television,” our feature segment is on the “The Guns of August”-covering the bolt-action rifles used by the Great Powers at the outbreak of World War I. But the game-changing infantry weapon of World War I was the belt-fed, water-cooled machine gun. Here we look at the German Maxim 08/15, a “light” version of Germany’s Maxim gun.

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