Key Point: In fact, some in the military want to bring back a modernized version. World War I is often called “the machine gun war” because of the devastating use of automatic weapons such as the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, British Bren Gun, Vickers-Berthier Light Machine Gun, and German FG42 and StG44 paved the way for the development of squad ...

In the frozen hell of Hürtgen Forest, November 19, 1944, Francis X. McGraw’s fingers tightened on the Browning as German MG42s—Hitler's buzzsaw—ripped through the fog at 1,200 rounds per minute. For ...