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===Maxim=== In June 1883 [[Hiram Maxim]] filed his first patent to do with automatic firearms covering semi-automatic and fully automatic [[Winchester rifle|Winchester]] and [[Martini-Henry]] rifles as well as an original automatic rifle and blowback- and recoil-operated machine guns, both single and multi-barrelled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExduQij5Z6UC&dq=Maxim+3178+1883&pg=RA3-PA351-IA14|title=Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 41|year=1912}}</ref>
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