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...is essentially the same in concept as the [[M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle|Browning Automatic Rifle]] (BAR) or [[Bren]]. The L2A1 often was considered a replac ...ier with C2 DA-SC-84-02213.JPEG|thumb|right|Canadian soldier with C2 light machine gun. The C2 is the Canadian version of the FN FAL, with a heavier barrel th

|type= [[General purpose machine gun]] ...eavy infantry '''Model 60-20''' machine gun, the '''Model 60-40''' coaxial machine gun for armoured fighting vehicles and the '''Model 60-30''' aircraft varia

...iaries , FN HERSTAL, active in the Defense and Law Enforcement fields, and Browning / U.S. Repeating Arms Co., specializing in hunting /shooting marksmanship a ...hip with the famous American firearms designer, [[John Browning|John Moses Browning]].

...round with a single manipulation of the [[trigger|firing device]] to be a "machine gun" for regulatory purposes. Other terms, including "firearm" itself, hav For handguns and long guns, the [[projectile]] is a [[bullet]], or in historical [[cannons]], a [[cann

...owning Hi-Power]], [[Heckler & Koch USP|HK USP]], [[Glock]], [[M2 Browning machine gun]], [[MG42]], Ceska Zbrojovka [[Vz. 52 (pistol)|Vz 52]], [[M82 Barrett r * '''Long-recoil''' - Browning Automatic Shotgun, Femaru STOP Pistol, [[Mars Automatic Pistol]]

...gned for that role. In modern practice, they are air-cooled medium machine guns firing rifle cartridges such as the [[7.62x51mm NATO]]. They are generally ... used as a GPMG traces back to World War I, where aircooled medium machine guns were used in many different roles, typically with larger magazines on aircr

...|thumb|A [[Browning Arms Company|Browning]] [[9x19mm Parabellum|9x19mm]] [[Browning Hi-Power|Hi-Power]] ]] ...long gun]]s such as [[rifle]]s and [[shotgun]]s, mounted weapons such as [[machine gun]]s and [[autocannon]]s, and larger weapons such as [[artillery]].

...ans firing a [[Ckm wz.30]] (a [[Poland|Polish]]-made clone of the American Browning M1917) in 1944.]] [[Image:M2 machine gun.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[M2 Browning machine gun]] with a [[tripod]] weighs 58 kg (128 lb).]]

|type= [[Automatic rifle]], [[Light machine gun]] }}The '''Huot''' was a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[World War I]] [[light machine gun]] project.

*[[.50 BMG]] primers, used for the .50 Browning Machine Gun cartridge and [[wildcat cartridge|derivatives]] ...sirable for anything but belt-fed machine guns and pistol-sized submachine guns. The reason is that the mass of the bolt, moving forward, causes the gun t

...], one of the most popular modern [[5.56x45mm NATO|5.56 mm]] light machine guns among NATO countries.]] [[Image:Machine gun HK MG43 (MG4).jpg|right|thumb|[[MG4]] of the German Army.]]

==Machine guns== ==Submachine guns==

* '''[[Browning Hi-Power|Browning HP]]''': A 9 mm pistol in service with many nations prior to World War II, ...rowning Hi-Power|Inglis High Power]]''': A Canadian re-engineering of the Browning High Power.

;Machine Guns *[[Skoda M1909 machine gun]]

This is an extensive list of [[small arms]] — [[pistol]], [[machine gun]], [[grenade launcher]], [[anti-tank rifle]] — that includes variants *[[Accu-Tek AT32]] (US - Pistol - 7.65 x 17 mm Browning/.32 ACP)

..., or even boxes. There are also high caliber and standard caliber machine guns. They are often used to eliminiate large spans of enemies, or to destroy a ===Light machine guns/squad automatic weapons===

...t. By contrast, soldiers armed with rapid fire weapons (such as submachine guns) were much more likely to have fired their weapons in battle. These conclus ...as the German [[FG 42|FG42]] and [[M1941 Johnson machine gun|Johnson light machine gun]]; they located the barrel in line with the stock, well below eye level

...ilar to that of a lever action rifle. The earliest prototype developed by Browning in early 1889 was a .44 caliber [[black powder]] cartridge rifle, weighing ...type lever mechanism was offered to [[Colt Manufacturing Company|Colt]] by Browning in 1892. The lever was moved back, and power was supplied by a gas port ab

... 1072 stamp. The cartridges shown are the [[.45 ACP]] (left) and [[7.65 mm Browning]]/[[.32 ACP]] (right). Confiscated early 2004 in or around Al-Qurna, Iraq, |designer= [[John M. Browning]]

|name= Browning Model 1917 |caption= Browning Model 1917A1 water cooled machine gun