Why didn't Britain adopt this advanced self-loading rifle? With firearms expert Christian Wellard

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From a channel Lumen includes in full: The Royal Armouries, the UK's national museum of arms and armour, has its curators (notably Jonathan Ferguson) examine weapons from the collection, separating documented history from myth.

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