Home›Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons›Weapon Class›RifleBrowse ByRifleFactsRifleSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1884 1RifleFilter Results3 entriesWeapon FamilyAllLight Machine Guns (2)Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns (1)Introduced EraAll1866 (1)1918 (1)1994 (1)ManufacturerAllCarl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori (1)Colt's Manufacturing Company (1)FN Herstal (1)IBM (1)Marlin Firearms (1)Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów (1)Royal McBee (1)Winchester Repeating Arms Company (1)OperatorAllFrench Armed Forces (1)Mexican Armed Forces (2)United States Armed Forces (1)CaliberAll.30-06 Springfield (1)13mm (1)5.56x45mm NATO (1)Service StatusAllIn Service (1)Retired (2)Country of OriginAllFrance (1)United States (2)Wars Used InAllCambodian Civil War (1)Chinese Civil War (1)First Indochina War (1)Franco-Prussian War (1)Iraq War (1)Korean War (1)Laotian Civil War (1)Second Sino-Japanese War (1)Spanish Civil War (1)Vietnam War (1)War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) (1)World War I (1)World War II (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 3Browning Automatic RifleRifleColt Automatic RifleRifleMitrailleuseRifleSources1. 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.