automatic rifle
Noun
Meaning
light machine gun
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Design The AK-47 was designed to be a simple, reliable automatic rifle that could be manufactured quickly and cheaply, using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s.
Generally, the difference between an automatic rifle and a machine gun comes down to weight, cooling system, and ammunition feed system.
The rally, which took place in Nevada, was attended by a small but vocal bunch of Trump fanatics, each one either clutching a semi automatic rifle, a handgun, or a chubby baby.
FM 3-22.68 "Crew-Served Machine Guns", describes how the M249 can be used either as a machine gun or as an automatic rifle: "Both the M249 automatic rifle and the M249 machine gun are identical, but its employment is different.
In fact, many light machine guns (such as the Russian RPK ) are adaptations of existing automatic rifle designs.
Intended originally as an automatic rifle capable of delivering suppressing " walking fire " in the advance, the BAR came to be used in the light machine gun role.