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This What If situation has got some historical plausibility behind it. since assault rifles by modern definition were being worked on in prototype's, by late WW1 all the way through the interwar period.

So what if gun's that were similar in characteristics to modern assault rifles. Such as the riber-rolles 1918 automatic carbine and the vollmer m35 made it into mass production. POD 1917, this is what if the french adopted the Riber-Rolles 1918 automatic carbine as their standard light rifle along side the MAS semi-auto rifle after successfully deploying the the 1917 conversions of the Winchester 1907 in WW1.

How would the US respond to such a development? Also would the soviet union and the British commonwealth, follow suit after seeing the french and the Germans using such weapons in early WW2?
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