AUTOMATIC RIFLE
NEW WEAPON FOR AMERICAN ARMY ABLE TO FIRE SIXTY SHOTS A MINUTE GREAT INCREASE IN KILLING POWER (Recd This Day, 12.10 p.m.) MONTREAL, July 4. The Australian Associated Press correspondent in Washington learns that the United States Army is soon to be equipped with a new secret type of semi-automatic rifle, which will multiply each soldier’s death-dealing potentialities by five. The gun, which has been perfected after years of secret experimenting, will permit an infantryman to fire 60 shots per minute. The new weapon supplants the old Springfield rifle, which was capable of less than 15 shots per minute. Military strategists claim that the new weapon will make the Army’s enlisted strength of 175,000 men equivalent to 875,000. The rifle is of the same calibre as the Springfield, uses the same ammunition, and is equally accurate. If it proves successful, the use of the rifle will probably will be extended to the Marines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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155AUTOMATIC RIFLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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