Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "France's Final Battle Rifle Iteration: The MAS 49-56" video.

@tyrssen1 The thing is, France during late 19th and early 20th century was very secretive about its firearms development. So it's not that widely known that they were the original inventors of such groundbreaking developments as smokeless powder. Or that if not for the outbreak of WW1, they probably would've been the first nation to issue semi-auto rifles as the standard infantry weapon.
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