Editing Automatic rifle (section)

=== Lewis Gun ===
[[File:Lewis_Gun_(derivated).jpg|thumb|left|Lewis ]]
The [[Lewis Gun]] was invented in 1911 by [[Isaac Newton Lewis]] and first mass-produced in Belgium in 1913 for the [[.303 British]] cartridge, and widely used by the British army in the First World War, both by infantry and fitted to aircraft.  [[Pan magazine]]s are secured above the breech, holding either 47 or 97 rounds.  Cooling fins surround the barrel.  The weapon is [[gas operated]] and fires automatically at 500-600 rounds per minute.

More than 50,000 Lewis guns were produced during WW1, becoming the most common automatic weapon used by British and American troops. Although superseded by the [[Bren gun]] by 1939, nearly 60,000 Lewis guns were refurbished and reissued to British forces after the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940.