M1918 BAR - John Browning’s Formidable Automatic Rifle

A compromise between the firepower of a machine gun and the accuracy and portability of a rifle; the Browning Automatic Rifle, better known as the M1918 BAR, was designed to solve the trench stalemate the First World War devolved into. Its story transcended the war it was designed for though, and the BAR would see combat up until the height of the so-called Cold War - becoming a more understated legend in firearm lore, but a legend nonetheless. From the fields of France to the jungles of the Pacific islands, the BAR served valiantly for half a century, and the tale that accompanies John Browning's ahead of its time rifle is nothing short of fascinating.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 The Machine Gun Problem
03:35 Enter John Browning
06:44 Production Problems (Part 1)
08:42 Small Steps In The Great War
11:15 Interwar Innovations
13:51 Guns & Gangsters
15:38 Production Problems (Part 2)
18:12 BAR vs. Fascism
21:29 Twilight Years
23:36 Conclusions
26:00 Outro

The sources from the actual historians lol:
Browning, John, and Curt Gentry. John M. Browning, American Gunmaker: A Illustrated Biography of the Man and His Guns. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1964.

Conroy, Bob, and Paul Ruffin. Browning Automatic Rifle: From the 1918 to the 1918A3-SLR. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2015.

Gorenstein, Nathan, and Michael David Axtell. The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2021.

Hodges, Robert R. The Browning Automatic Rifle. Long Island City, NY, USA: Osprey, 2012.