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M1941 Johnson machine gun

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The M1941/1944 Johnson LMG was designed by a Boston lawyer named Melvin Johnson Jr who was also a Captain in the Marine Corps Reserve.His goal was to build a semiautomatic rifle and a light machine gun that would do the job better than what the Army had in mind.By late 1937 he had designed, built and successfully tested both a semiauto rifle and a prototype light machine gun. Each shared a significant number of physical characteristics and common parts, and both operated on the principle of short recoil.

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