Home›Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons›Country of Origin›United StatesBrowse ByUnited StatesFactsUnited StatesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1884 1United StatesFilter Results27 entriesWeapon ClassAllMachine Gun (24)Rifle (2)Submachine Gun (1)Weapon FamilyAllGeneral-Purpose and Medium Machine Guns (5)Heavy Machine Guns (4)Light Machine Guns (15)Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns (2)Introduced EraAll1861 (1)1862 (1)1895 (1)1909 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1918 (1)1919 (1)1933 (1)1940 (1)1944 (1)1957 (1)1960 (1)1963 (2)1964 (1)1966 (1)1977 (1)1982 (1)1984 (1)1986 (1)1994 (1)1995 (1)2002 (1)2003 (1)2010 (2)2019 (1)ManufacturerAllAAI Corporation (1)ACDelco (1)Barrett Firearms Manufacturing (1)Birmingham Small Arms Company (1)Cadillac (1)Carl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori (1)Colt's Manufacturing Company (5)Dillon Aero (1)FN Herstal (5)Frigidaire (1)General Dynamics Corporation (4)General Electric (2)General Motors (2)High Standard Manufacturing Company (1)Hotchkiss et Cie (1)IBM (1)Knight's Armament Company (1)Marlin Firearms (2)Nexteer Automotive (1)Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów (1)Rock Island Arsenal (2)Royal McBee (1)Sabre Defence (1)Savage Arms (2)SIG Sauer (2)Springfield Armory (1)Sturm, Ruger & Co. (1)SureFire (1)Textron Marine & Land Systems (1)TRW Inc. (1)U.S. Ordnance (1)Winchester Repeating Arms Company (1)OperatorAllAustralian Defence Force (2)Brazilian Army (1)British Army (2)Bundeswehr (1)Canadian Armed Forces (2)Canadian Army (1)Egyptian Armed Forces (1)French Armed Forces (2)Israeli Defense Forces (3)Mexican Armed Forces (1)Royal Air Force (3)Royal Navy (1)Turkish Armed Forces (1)Union Army (1)United States Air Force (2)United States Armed Forces (9)United States Army (3)United States Marine Corps (1)United States Navy (1)CaliberAll.30 caliber (2).30-06 Springfield (8).30-40 Krag (2).303 British (4).338 Norma Magnum (1).45-70 Government (1).50 BMG (3).50 caliber (3)11x60mm Mauser (1)5.56x45mm NATO (9)6.5x52mm Carcano (1)6.5x55mm (1)6.8x51mm (1)6mm Lee Navy (1)7.5×54mm French (1)7.62x51mm NATO (6)7.62x54mmR (3)7.65x53mm Argentine (2)7.92x57mm Mauser (2)7x57mm Mauser (2)8mm Lebel (1)9x19mm (1)Service StatusAllIn Service (12)Prototype or Experimental (4)Retired (6)Wars Used InAllAmerican Civil War (1)Anglo-Egyptian War (1)Anglo-Zulu War (1)Bosnian War (2)Boxer Rebellion (2)Burundian Civil War (1)Cambodian Civil War (4)Chinese Civil War (2)Falklands War (2)First Indochina War (4)Franco-Prussian War (1)Gaza War (1)Gulf War (5)Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (1)Iran-Iraq War (2)Iraq War (8)Korean War (6)Kosovo War (2)Laotian Civil War (4)Mahdist War (1)Mexican Revolution (2)Nigerian Civil War (1)Philippine-American War (1)Russian Civil War (2)Russo-Ukrainian War (2)Rwandan Civil War (1)Second Anglo-Afghan War (1)Second Boer War (1)Second Sino-Japanese War (1)South African Border War (1)Soviet-Afghan War (1)Spanish Civil War (4)Spanish-American War (1)Syrian Civil War (3)Vietnam War (8)War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) (5)War of the Pacific (1)World War I (3)World War II (7)Yugoslav Wars (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 27Ares Shrike 5.56United StatesBrowning Automatic RifleUnited StatesColt Automatic RifleUnited StatesColt IAR6940United StatesGatling GunUnited StatesHotchkiss M1909 Benét-Mercié machine gunUnited StatesKnight's Armament Company LAMGUnited StatesLewis GunUnited StatesLSAT light machine gunUnited StatesM134 MinigunUnited StatesM1895 Colt-Browning machine gunUnited StatesM1919 Browning Machine GunUnited StatesM1941 Johnson machine gunUnited StatesM2 Browning Machine GunUnited StatesM240 Machine GunUnited StatesM249 SAWUnited StatesM250 Light Machine GunUnited StatesM45 quad mountUnited StatesM60 Machine GunUnited StatesMk 48 machine gunUnited StatesModel 45AUnited StatesRuger MP9United StatesSIG Sauer MMG 338United StatesStoner 63United StatesSureFire MGXUnited StatesXM214 MicrogunUnited StatesXM806United StatesSources1. Wikipedia: Machine guntier 2WikipediaMachine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionQuote, Machine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionThe first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.