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Welcome to Madsen by Hansen

This page is about the Madsen machine gun, it is also about some of the stories that deserve to be told.

Madsen was the world’s first true light machine gun produced in quantity. It was invented and produced in Denmark by Dansk Rekyl Riffel Syndikat A/S (Eng=The Danish Recoil Rifle Syndicate A/S). The invention traces back to the 1880s but it was not produced in large quantities until 1903.

Throughout the abbreviation DIS will be used for
Dansk Rekyl Riffel Syndikat A/S (Eng=The Danish Recoil Rifle Syndicate A/S).

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