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During World War I in 1916, the Russian Army manufactured and used what is perceived to be the first assault rifle in the world, the Federov Avtomat. It saw action on the Romanian front and then was used during the Russian Civil War and then in the 1940 Winter War.

Since the Russians were able to create assault rifles before World War I (or at least, the assault rifle's ancestor), how plausible is it that the rest of the combatants could've been able to create assault rifles of their own? Were there any designs for assault rifles from before World War I outside of Russia?
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