{"id":22971,"date":"2023-08-07T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/3-early-semi-automatic-designs\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:29:50","slug":"3-early-semi-automatic-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/3-early-semi-automatic-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Early Semi Automatic Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zu0tChwtwOY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It has taken until the mid-20th century for semi automatic rifles to be issued en masse in the world&#8217;s militaries, but true students of the gun know that their development and initial use began much earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we examine three such early designs with intended end users that spanned the globe. Each was issued in very small quantities, resulting in three fantastically rare collector pieces today.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken until the mid-20th century for semi automatic rifles to be issued en masse in the world&#8217;s militaries, but true students of the gun know that their development and initial use began much earlier. In this video, we examine three such early designs with intended end users that spanned the globe. Each was&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/3-early-semi-automatic-designs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 Early Semi Automatic Designs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":22972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}