The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle Model 1947, known as the M47, is a Danish bolt-action rifle designed by Compagnie Madsen in 1947 and built by Dansk Industri Syndikat, intended to be chambered for a wide range of contemporary military cartridges and marketed from 1951 onward chiefly to countries that could not afford newer semi-automatic rifles; it is regarded as the last bolt-action rifle designed with the intention of general infantry issue. Chambered for .30-06 Springfield, it weighs 8.5 pounds, measures 43 inches overall with a 23.4 inch barrel, and loads via a 5-round stripper clip into an internal box magazine, but abundant war-surplus weapons and the rapid postwar adoption of self-loading rifles meant only about 6,000 were built, used chiefly by Denmark and Colombia.
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The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle (or the Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle Model 1947; commonly abbreviated as M47) is a Danish bolt-action rifle designed to be chambered for a wide range of contemporary military cartridges.
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Bolt-action rifle
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1958
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