Ohio Ordnance Semi Auto Browning Automatic Rifle, 1918A3

Description

The U.S. Army adopted the BAR in 1917 and retained it as a standard infantry weapon into the 1960s. From its introduction, this reliable and rugged weapon’s accurate and effective fire changed the basic infantry organization and tactics of the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps.

The Browning Automatic Rifle began as another of the remarkable ideas of the amazing arms inventor John Moses Browning several years before World War I began.

He conceived it as an automatic rifle to complement the bolt-action rifles used by infantrymen of the day.  Shortly after WWI began, in the fall of 1914, Browning began to develop his “automatic rifle” at the Browning Brothers’ experimental gun machine shop in Ogden, Utah.

The Army first tested the BAR in February 1917, several months before the United States entered WWI in April 1917. The first BARs reached the American Expeditionary Force, the A.E.F., in France in August 1918.

Adopted in WWII, the M1918A2 BAR had some major changes from the earlier models: It had a bipod attached to its muzzle at its flash hider. A new forend with a metal heat shield was provided. Clip guides were added to the front of the trigger housing to improve magazine loading and survivability.

A completely new fire-rate-control buffer mechanism was installed in the buttstock, which allowed the BAR to fire selectively at full-automatic cyclic rates of 350 or 550 rounds per minute. The buttstock was also provided with a hinged fire support buttplate and a detachable butt support.

Introduced in 1996, the Ohio Ordnance 1918A3 uses a combination of a new-made receiver and GI-surplus components to make a semi-automatic closed bolt copy of the signature Browning Automatic Rifle. Since this is a Semi Automatic weapon it can be transferred on a 4473 to anyone that can buy a rifle.  The top of the receiver bears the model and caliber markings, with the “CHARDON, OH” address over the patent and three-digit serial number. This BAR features:

Features

• blade front sight

• folding ladder rear sights

• hand adjustable gas port

• unmarked barrel

• 2-position safety

• left-side cocking knob

• smooth hardwood forearm and buttstock

• swiveling carry handle

• steel buttplate with flip-up shoulder rest

• 5 20rd Magazines, 4 are unopened in the wrapper US Govt surplus.

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