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This gun was accompanied by a 1918-dated tan canvas magazine belt with 12 magazines, a copy of Ordnance Department Handbook #1923 (dated February 1918). Soldiers tended to shed some of what they felt were unnecessary accoutrements from the BAR to make it lighter. It also received a carrying handle and the buttstock was lengthened by an inch.

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John Moses Browning envisioned his Browning Automatic Rifle as the best weapon for walking fire, or providing covering fire while advancing against the enemy.īetween wars, the Browning Automatic Rifle received some minor updates before getting its biggest redesign in 1938 when it became the M1918A2 with two rates of full auto fire, a flash suppressor, and iron sights. More than 50,000 were made by the end of World War 1. Colt already had too many manufacturing contracts for World War 1 so production was passed off to Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Marlin-Rockwell Corporation. It was John Moses Browning’s take on “walking fire,” the term given to a standard infantryman laying down covering fire as troops crossed “no man’s land.” The gun, brought to production by Colt, was chambered in the stout. The gun was introduced in World War 1 too late to have a significant impact. The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was a signature weapon for generations of American GIs, seeing action first seeing action in both world wars and and Korea. Winchester 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle: $105,750 (August 2022) Joel from Rock Island Auction Company explores some of the exceptional items from the Larry Vickers Collection that sold in 2020. Army Special Forces operating in Southeast Asia.

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This rare Cadillac-Gage Stoner Model 63A light machine gun sold for $103,000 at Rock Island Auction Company in June of 2020.ĭeveloped with an eye for military sales, the 63/63A was issued on a trial basis in multiple configurations to the United States Marine Corps and select elements of the Navy SEALs and U.S. Working with Cadillac-Gage's establishment in Costa Mesa, California, Stoner developed a modular weapon system, intended to be capable of a radical degree of customization at the field armorer level, creating a receiver that could be reconfigured rapidly for mission and environment while a number of modern weapons designs have touched on this sort of flexibility, this was an exceptional capability for the era. One of the many notable products of American arms designer Eugene Stoner (of AR10, M16/AR15, and AR-18/180 fame, among others), the genesis of the 63 was in the early 60s, shortly after his departure from Armalite. Cadillac-Gage Stoner Model 63A Light Machine Gun: $103,500 (June 2020)

Included in the lot was a 50-round “L” drum, four stick magazines, a black leatherette transport case, manual, cleaning rod, two Waukesha County Sheriff patches and a rare and complete period Thompson spare parts kit consisting of a tin containing an extractor, firing pin, firing pin spring, sear spring, sear lever spring, trigger spring, hammer pin, pull through cleaning brush, and cleaning rod brush.

It was sold in 1935 to the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office of Wisconsin. This gun was shipped as part of a 12-piece order on Apto Chief Lester Tiffany of the Lake Forest, Police Department. Thompson submachine guns, known as the Tommy gun, “Chicago typewriter,” and “trench broom,” are always popular items at Rock Island Auction Company and this one, sold in August 2022, knocked previously sold Tommy guns off the list that achieved more than $80,000. The Tommy Gun, used by mobsters and G-men alike in the roaring 20s and 30s, is a popular weapon often on offer at Rock Island Auction Company. Colt 1921 Thompson Machine Gun with Accessories: $94,000 (August 2022) Since the gun remained in use for decades, the Bren was redesigned to handle the 7.52mm NATO cartridge following World War 2. It’s key feature is the top-mounted curved magazine. The gun is a British licensed version of the Czech ZGB 33. The gun had an effective range of about 600 yards with a fire rate of 500 to 520 rounds per minute. Generally fired from a prone position it could also be fired while standing and using a sling.

Production of the Bren started in the 1930s and it was used until 1992, including action in World War 2 and the Falklands War. Inglis Bren Mark II Machine Gun: $92,000 (December 2021) Powerful, intimidating, and certainly fun to shoot, who doesn't love a machine gun? So without further ado, here are the Top 10 Machine Guns ever auctioned by Rock Island Auction Company. RIAC President Kevin Hogan shows off some of the impressive high-powered guns and weapons sold during the May Premier Firearms Auction in 2019.Īt Rock Island Auction Company, we see some rare, unusual, and downright awesome machine guns that pass through our doors.