First assault rifle

[philb]

what about the MKB42

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[philb]

what about the Pedersen rifle ????

[villiers]

I can still remember that I was taught that the first `assault rifle´ (`Sturmgewehr´) was invented by a Mexican, General Mondragón (1908). During WWI it was still being manufactured in Switzerland and was purchased by the Germans to arm aircraft.