Editing Automatic rifle (section)

===Browning Automatic Rifle===
[[File:Army Heritage Museum B.A.R..jpg|thumb|left|M1918A2 [[Browning Automatic Rifle]]]]
The [[Browning Automatic Rifle]] (BAR) was one of the first practical automatic rifles. The BAR made its successful combat debut in World War I, and approximately 50,000 were made before the war came to an end.<ref name="HoggWeeks285">{{cite book|last1=Hogg|first1=Ian V.|last2=Weeks|first2=John|title=Military Small Arms of the 20th Century|edition=7th|publisher=Krause Publications |year=2000|page=285 |isbn=978-0-87341-824-9|chapter=US Automatic Rifle, Caliber .30in<!--sic! Don't change it--> M1918-M1922 (Brownings)}}</ref><ref>The Browning Automatic Rifle. Robert Hodges. Osprey Publishing. 2012. pages 12–13</ref> The BAR arose from the concept of "[[walking fire]]", an idea urged upon the Americans by the French who used the [[Chauchat]] light [[machine gun]] to fulfill that role.<ref name="HoggWeeks285"/> The BAR never entirely lived up to the designer's hopes; being neither a rifle nor a machinegun.<ref name="HoggWeeks285"/> "For its day, though, it was a brilliant design produced in record time by [[John Browning]], and it was bought and used by many countries around the world. It was the standard squad light automatic of the U.S. infantry during World War II and saw use in every theater of war."<ref name="HoggWeeks285"/> The BAR was praised for its reliability and stopping power. "The US forces abandoned the BAR in the middle 1950s, though it was retained in reserve stocks for several years; it survived in smaller countries until the late 1970s."<ref name="HoggWeeks285"/>