Blue then pursues Stacy through the warehouse with an automatic rifle. He killed or wounded all 3 with his automatic rifle. Simonov used elements of his 1938 design, a 7.62mm automatic rifle. These weapons were all designed to fill the role of the earlier Browning Automatic Rifle. An angled foregrip was added to the handguard to improve handling as an automatic rifle. M3 "Grease Gun" and M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). Another is the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) developed during the First World War. This was followed by sustained machine gun and automatic rifle fire from close range. Other early automatic rifles include the Fedorov Avtomat and the Huot Automatic Rifle. An official announcement declared that the weapon he had used was an automatic rifle.