Question regarding semi-automatic rifle see below for details?*?

Question

The First Semi-Automatic Rifle was created in what Year?*

Answer 1

I would assume the M1 Garand made in 1936.
Edit: Scratch that. I guess the first one was developed by the French. The Mle RSC 1917, created in 1917. I don't know what the deal is with the thumbs down. The first semi-auto rifle was the French gun. The Gatling gun was neither a rifle nor semi-automatic. The Mannlicher M1894 was semi-auto, however it was a pistol. The rifle developed by Steyr-Mannlicher in 1885 was bolt-action.

Answer 2

The first successful design for a semi-automatic rifle is attributed to German-born gunsmith Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher, who unveiled the design in 1885. Although Mannlicher earned his reputation with his bolt action rifle designs, he also produced a few semi-automatic pistols, including the Steyr Mannlicher M1894, which employed an unusual blow-forward action and held five rounds of 6.5mm ammunition that were fed into the M1894 by a stripper clip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automa...

Answer 3

Some time in the 1880's John Browning and his brother converted a Winchester M-1873 in .44-40 WCF to fire full automatic. Browning did it after he saw a demonstration of a gas operated rifle.

So I would sat that the first semi-automatic rifle probably came around during the mid-1880's.

If I find the exact year, I'll post it.

Doc

Answer 4

The Mannlicher in 1885 it was the first truly semi automatic rifle. The Maxim gun invented in 1884 was the first fully automatic weapon.

Answer 5

technically it would have been the Gattling gun. created by the battle field surgeon D. Gattling in approx.1850ish

Answer 6

I'm not sure