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This Gun Was One of the Very First Machine Guns

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02:09 | Apr 20th, 2020

In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first recoil-operate...Show More



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