Automatic Arms: Their History, Development and Use

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The evolution of automatic weapons is one of the most significant developments in weapons history. While this development has been filled with disagreements, controversy, and stray hurdles, out of all of this tumult, shouting, and shooting has come the progress in firearms from the days when it was necessary to build a fire under a gun to make it go off to the "you press the button and they do the work" automatic firearms of the present day.

Melvin M. Johnson Jr. was born in Boston in 1909. He became a member of the Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 while studying at Harvard Law School. While in law school, he became deeply involved in the research, study, and design of firearms, and, in 1935, he designed the M1941 Johnson rifle. He is also the coauthor of For Permanent Victory and Ammunition: Its History, Development and Use, 1600 to 1943 .22 BB Cap to 40 mm. Shell. He died in 1965. Charles T. Haven was the coauthor of For Permanent Victory and Ammunition: Its History, Development and Use, 1600 to 1943 .22 BB Cap to 40 mm. Shell and author of Instruction Manual of the Johnson Light Machine Gun, Type H. He was also a regular contributor to gun magazines and annuals such as Gun Digest.