{"id":38671,"date":"2020-02-27T07:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=38671"},"modified":"2020-02-27T07:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:44:53","slug":"38671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=38671","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, February 27, 1917, Congress Heights District of Columbia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modernfirearms.net\/userfiles\/images\/machine\/mg36\/bar1918.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Moses Browning, with executives of Colt&#8217;s Patent Firearms,\u00a0 demonstrated his working model of the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M1918_Browning_Automatic_Rifle#Development\">Automatic Rifle<\/a>&#8216; to U.S. government leaders and high ranking military officers.<\/p>\n<p>And off we went to the races.<\/p>\n<p>The production version, the Model 1918 was manufactured in sufficient quantity to outfit the U.S. army&#8217;s 79th Division for World War 1 combat use in September of that year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, February 27, 1917, Congress Heights District of Columbia John Moses Browning, with executives of Colt&#8217;s Patent Firearms,\u00a0 demonstrated his working model of the &#8216;Automatic Rifle&#8216; to U.S. government leaders and high ranking military officers. And off we went to the races. The production version, the Model 1918 was manufactured in sufficient quantity to outfit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=38671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38672,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38671\/revisions\/38672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}