Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2, Group Industries, S/N 00229
Official wording
Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), M1918A2, S/N 00229, mfd. by Group Industries.
What this entry requires
- ATF REQUIRESMade or imported as stated: “mfd. by Group Industries”
- ATF REQUIRESYour serial number is one ATF listsATF: “S/N 00229”
- INFOATF states no date; production was about 1980–1986.
- INFOStill an NFA firearm; only registered examples transfer, with ATF approval (26 U.S.C. 5812, 5861).
Editorial facts · Our research
Low editorial confidence. Some details below couldn’t be confirmed from independent sources. The ATF wording is unaffected. About confidence
- Country
United StatesBasis: no citation - Manufacturer
- Group IndustriesBasis: the ATF wording
- Type
- MachinegunBasis: the ATF wording
- Action
- Select-fire / autoBasis: the ATF wording
- Caliber
- .30-06Basis: outside reference ¹
- Made
- S/N 00229 only · c. 1980–1986production; ATF states no dateBasis: outside reference ²
- Service
- Commercial
Source
- Official wording
- ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section IV · PDF p. 82 ↗ · ATF original ↗
- Entries
- 1 line
- Verbatim check
- Checked against the PDF text before every release
- Editorial facts
- Confidence: Low · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
- References
- 1. Wikipedia, “M1918 Browning automatic rifle” ↗, calibers: M1918 family chambered .30-06
- 2. Wikipedia, “M1918 Browning automatic rifle” ↗, years: machine gun production for civilian transfer banned in 1986
- Fact tags
- ATF the ATF wording states it.
- REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
- ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
- NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition
- Corrections
- None
Historical context
Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Army Heritage Museum B.A.R..jpg” by United States Army, Public domain. Retrieved October 2026.
Summary: Wikipedia, “M1918 Browning automatic rifle”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifle used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the French-made Chauchat and M1909 Benét–Mercié machine guns that U.S. forces had previously been issued.