The Browning Automatic Rifle is a shining ... technology can ever rob this gun of its status as the very first fully ...

In this regard, the SAW filled the void created by the retirement of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (e.g. M-14E2/M16A1) had failed as viable ...

The same cannot be said of the gun reviewed here ... it is the product of the genius of John Moses Browning, after all, and was the first semi-automatic shotgun offered for sale, ever.