Ideas for BR4 US Rifle's

[Catman358]

So with the Jonhson Rifle being moved down to BR3 (which i still prefer the Garand over) the US don’t have a proper BR4 rifle (no i don’t count the grenade launcher Garand)

The only BR4 Rifle the US have is the Winchester G30R Premium Squad. Which is a really good rifle in my opinion. The only real problem here is that outside of the M1 Garand, i don’t really think there’s a good semi auto rifle you can add that’s magazine fed to the BR4 lineup. Winchester made mag fed garands but they were select fire and those are the T20 rifles we already have. The only option i can see them doing is making an M1 Garand have 20 mags in it but keep it semi auto. But then it would be identical to the winchester G30R (but that’s not really much of an issue since that Squad would still be unique for it’s radio operator)

I also seen someone mention adding the Thompson Rifle as a possible weapon and i can see that work as well. But do you guys have any ideas for American/British mag fed semi auto prototypes that could work as a BR4 Rifle.

I know the same question can be asked for Japan but that question might be even harder to answer since Japan didn’t have a lot in the arsenal pool to begin with.

[Kriegerfaust007-live]

. ‘White Prototype Open-Bolt LMG’, in semi auto. JC White rifles

[Valkay]

May I suggest Mas-44?

@Valkay

Mas-44

Suggested BR and place:
BR4 - semi-auto rifle, Allied tech tree Tier IV.

The Mas-44 is a gas-operated French semi-automatic rifle firing 7.5x54mm rounds and is fed by a 10 round detachable magazine. The Mas-44 is based on the Mas-40, a rifle that had been in development since 1931 and was planned to become France’s standard issue rifle starting in 1940 this however was prevented by the outbreak of the war.

In 1944 the liberation of the Mas armoury opened the possibility of mass producing semi-automatic rifles, the Mas-40 design was revised into the Mas-44 with the experience gained during the war and the fixed 5 round magazine was replaced with a detachable 10 round magazine.
In very early 1945 the Mas-44 went into mass-production with a total of ~7000 rifles made before production had ended a few months after the war had ended.

Although the rifle had many advantages over the M1 garand such as higher reliability, very easy maintenance and a detachable magazine preventing garand thumbs, the Mas-44 had only seen a limited deployment with the French navy and French commandos due to logistical and heavily political reasons.
Even though there was major shortage of M1 Garand and M1 carbine rifles in the Free French army, therefore creating a high demand for a semi-automatic rifle capable of replacing the Garand.

[khtk395]

@Catman358

The only BR4 Rifle the US have is the Winchester G30R Premium Squad. Which is a really good rifle in my opinion. The only real problem here is that outside of the M1 Garand, i don’t really think there’s a good semi auto rifle you can add that’s magazine fed to the BR4 lineup. Winchester made mag fed garands but they were select fire and those are the T20 rifles we already have. The only option i can see them doing is making an M1 Garand have 20 mags in it but keep it semi auto. But then it would be identical to the winchester G30R (but that’s not really much of an issue since that Squad would still be unique for it’s radio operator)

The Winchester G30R is able to use 10 round magazine. So we can add a 10 round version to br4 tech tree.