![Apart from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and the USA, which countries used trialed or tried to develop a semi-automatic rifle around the time of WW1 ? : r/ForgottenWeapons Apart from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and the USA, which countries used trialed or tried to develop a semi-automatic rifle around the time of WW1 ? : r/ForgottenWeapons](https://preview.redd.it/0rdbzx0dq8171.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0c699f82e3f2f4a1cef6a2a2e21211c78ff15aa8)
Apart from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and the USA, which countries used trialed or tried to develop a semi-automatic rifle around the time of WW1 ? : r/ForgottenWeapons
![Experimental semi-automatic rifles, 1919-1931- excluding Garand's and Pedersen's rifles - Springfield Armory National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) Experimental semi-automatic rifles, 1919-1931- excluding Garand's and Pedersen's rifles - Springfield Armory National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)](https://www.nps.gov/spar/historyculture/images/Thompson_T_rifles_lft_sd.jpg)
Experimental semi-automatic rifles, 1919-1931- excluding Garand's and Pedersen's rifles - Springfield Armory National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
I know that Germany and Russia tried to make a semi-automatic rifle, but why didn't Britain and France? - Quora
![Experimental semi-automatic rifles, 1919-1931- excluding Garand's and Pedersen's rifles - Springfield Armory National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) Experimental semi-automatic rifles, 1919-1931- excluding Garand's and Pedersen's rifles - Springfield Armory National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)](https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/images/Thompson_T_rifles_rt_sd.jpg?maxwidth=650&autorotate=false)