For my part I'll chose an even older weapon and one of British origin, dating back to WW1: the Lee Enfield. That choice come from a true story that occured in 1914. When facing a british company equipped with these rifles a unit of german cavalry (Uhlan) withdrew. The fire rate was so high that they believed they were facing several machine guns. Actually, another version of this rifle was still the regular firearm of the British Army during WW2 and it could compete with the M1 Garand.
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