Record
Photograph
1918
National Park Service, Springfield Armory National Historic Site (NPS Museum Collections)
U.S. Rifle Model 1918 Browning Automatic .30, SN 12701 (Springfield Armory NHS, SPAR 3565)
NPS museum catalog record for a Colt-made Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, described as the "First production Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle off the Colt production line." It illustrates the rifle type traced from National Guard armories to the Barrow gang in 1933.
- Date
- 1918
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- NPS Museum Collections web catalog record, Springfield Armory National Historic Site, catalog number SPAR 3565. The catalog's copyright page asks that anyone reproducing an image first contact the custodial park, so the NPS asks that reproduction be cleared with the park and no image is stored here; the page shows a document plate and links to the catalog record.
The catalog says the rifle was donated to the Armory on 22 July 1943. This rifle has no crime history. It illustrates the model: the 1933 Bureau of Investigation reports trace Browning automatic rifles of this type from National Guard armories to the Barrow gang, and the serial numbers of those guns are in the report of 1 September 1933.
Object: Rifle, Model 1918 Browning Automatic, .30, serial number 12701
Maker: Colt (Hartford, Connecticut); designer John M. Browning
Date: 1918
Provenance: donated to the Springfield Armory museum on 22 July 1943
Appears in: NPS catalog, SPAR 3565
