That design is more than 100 years old. This Browning BAR is still being made and doesn’t require a tax stamp to assume ownership. Browning has eight models of the semi-auto currently in production.

In 2004, the .22 Long Rifle version of the MagnumLite rimfire rifle was in production, followed the next year by the .22 WMR.

The result was the Browning Automatic Rifle, one of the most influential and frequently-used machine guns ever designed.

John Browning designed a light machine gun that fired the formidable .30-06 caliber round, the same ammunition used by U.S. soldiers in their M1903 Springfield bolt-action rifles.

Police said their investigation suggests "he may have been suffering a mental health crisis" and had no previous contact with the force.

However, the A22 is actually an offshoot of another design, the A17. The A17 was released in 2015 as the first safe, reliable solution for a semi-automatic rifle chambered in .17 HMR. Adaptations of ...