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Browning Automatic Rifle History

This 85 percent gun would easily fetch $850 to $1,100 as both a shooter and a military collectable.

Ever wonder if there was a special bayonet made just for the Model 1897 Trench Gun from WWI?

When the M1917 rifle and bayonet were adopted in 1917, the bayonets were manufactured by Remington and Winchester. Learn more here.

Every Thursday we'll share an article from the archives. From the August 20, 1914 edition of Arms & The Man, the editors caution on siding too strongly with any of the combatants, but rather with the one whose cause is most just. (Armor Plate Press image)

Every Thursday we'll share an article from the American Rifleman archives. From the Oct. 7, 1915, Arms & The Man, is the story of the French infantry—the poilu, the “hairy ones” —as the shelled, bombed, filthy, bearded men fought and died to throw the Germans out of their homeland. How frontline? Try 75 feet from the Germans.

On June 28, 1914, seven students in Sarajevo set out to assassinate Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Armed with bombs and four FN Model 1910 pistols, they set in motion one of the world’s greatest conflicts.

Every Thursday we'll share an article from the American Rifleman archives. This article is from "Arms and the Man," Oct. 1917.

Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Major John Plaster continues his sniping history seminars, this year covering the First World War which saw the true birth of modern sniping.