1887. The Mexican Army equipped solders with the Mondragon rifle- a semi or full auto rifle- in 1901.
Define "modern rifle". A semi auto rifle was made for the Mexican Army in 1897- The Mondragon.
There were multiple bolt action rifles used in World War 2 on all sides. There were also semi and full-auto rifles used on all sides.
The British made 'Baker Rifle' was the first widely used Infantry rifle in the early 1800's
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It was early, but not the first.
The Ferguson Rifle
No such rifle
The REAL ptrs41 was a gas operated semi auto antitank rifle first made in 1938, and was approximately .55 caliber.
No. The first gas-operated rifle to be adopted by a military was the Mondragon rifle used by the Mexican army.
The first gun with a rifled barrel (a rifle is any gun with grooves cut into the barrel to give the projectile spin) used by American forces was the Kentucky rifle, used in the revolutionary war.