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Browning automatic rifle

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Browning automatic rifle [′brau̇·niŋ ȯd·ə′mad·ik ′rī·fəl]
(ordnance)
A gas-operated weapon whose cyclical rate of fire is adjustable but which is capable of firing 200-350 rounds per minute.


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And now the biggest man in Fox Company was hefting his 28-pound Browning automatic rifle onto Saipan - a volcanic island fortress southeast of Japan.
In May, undercover state agents ran out of money buying illegal weapons at the show and in July federal agents set up a later off-site purchase of 10 Sten guns and two Browning automatic rifles, all illegal, from a show vendor, Yaroslavsky said.
War-weary American soldiers, ecstatic at the prospect of returning home and too tired to lug their ammunition 3,000 yards south behind the Demilitarized Zone, fired their howitzers and Browning automatic rifles into the air.
 
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