EVERYTHING ABOUT OTTAWA ORDNANCE

“On Could 1, 1917, the Secretary of War convened an ordnance panel to check and endorse for adoption a light equipment gun or automatic rifle. Browning’s was promptly adopted. It had been called the Browning Automatic Rifle’ and was shortly referred to principally by its initials ‘B-A-R.’ The BAR was chambered with the normal M1906 (.30-�