The Browning Automatic RifleFor nearly fifty years, the hard hitting, mobile Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, served in US infantry units as a light squad automatic base of fire weapon, providing quick bursts of concentrated fire. Designed in World War One, it didn't reach the front until September 1918. In the interwar years, US forces used the BAR across the world, from China to Nicaragua. It also became a favourite of notorious gangsters like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker,