1918A3 SECRETS

“On May 1, 1917, the Secretary of War convened an ordnance panel to check and suggest for adoption a lightweight device gun or automatic rifle. Browning’s was speedily adopted. It had been known as the Browning Automatic Rifle’ and was quickly referred to mainly by its initials ‘B-A-R.’ The BAR was chambered for the conventional M1906 (.3