Three-Way Semi-Automatic Rifle Converts into a Machine Gun
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So light and well balanced that it actually can beheld like a pistol, a three-why weapon devised by, the inventor of the Johnson semi-automatic rifle, can be.used as a single-shot rifle, a semi-automatic, rifle or a machine gun. It Is converted simply by flipping a thumb lever. Assembling the gun takes but a few minutes. To load 1t, a clip of five shells at a time is inserted in the magazine, or the magazine cart be loaded before being placed in the gun. It weighs only twelve and one-half pounds. Disregarding the time required for changing the magazines, the gun can fire 200 shots per minute at a muzzle velocity of 2,700 feet per second. The barrel is interchangable.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Three-Way Semi-Automatic Rifle Converts into a Machine Gun
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Three-Way Semi-Automatic Rifle Converts into a Machine Gun
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1940-10
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
-
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 4, 1940
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 555
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- References (Dublin Core)
- M1941 Johnson rifle
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
