Brandt Rifle

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The Brandt Rifle is a bolt-action service rifle which was used by the Bressian military from 484 until 552, and saw widespread service elsewhere in the world. It is considered to have been one of the most ubiquitous and influential rifle designs in history before the development of assault rifles, and various patterns or derivatives were standard issue in more than half of the nations involved in the Westenlands Wars.

The rifle was first developed in tandem with its standard cartridge, the 7.8x58mm Brandt, by Hower Elson Brandt (later by the Brandt Arms Company and the Uldale Royal Arsenal). The first Model 483 pattern Brandt rifles would enter service in 484, and would remain as the standard issue Bressian army service rifle until 544, when it would be replaced by the Ettson Self-Loading Rifle. The last Brandt rifles would be withdrawn from service in 552, though would remain in use by other countries for the remainder of the century.

History
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Brandt-Elwick Auto-Loading Rifle
A joint project between Brandt Arms Co. and inventor Alron Elwick, the Brandt-Elwick Autoloader was a conversion of surplus Model 483 and 501 rifles into a semi-automatic self-loading rifle using a toggle-lock mechanism and en-bloc clips.