Lewis gun

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The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not heavily adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.

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