The first gun with a rifled barrel (a rifle is any gun with grooves cut into the barrel to give the projectile spin) used by American forces was the Kentucky rifle, used in the revolutionary war.
Kentucky Rifle was used, it was long ranged and silent and in service from 1700 to 1900.
IIRC the USAF
The rifle was the main gun of the Infantry man so every major battle in WW 1 the rifle was used.
Susanns butler
it used the first submarine in battle
The British made 'Baker Rifle' was the first widely used Infantry rifle in the early 1800's
It was early, but not the first.
The Ferguson Rifle
Mexico, 1887- the 7mm Mondragon rifle
No. The first gas-operated rifle to be adopted by a military was the Mondragon rifle used by the Mexican army.
The British used the Baker rifle in the war against Napoleon.
WWII
1400's
the first rifle is said to be the ross rifle. i researched it but look it up for your self just in case
A long hollow tube was first used as a scope.
vengacharil chandy of kerala, india was the first user of the rifle
The Greene rifle, a bolt action rifle that still used percussion caps and combustible cartridges. It was made during the US Civil War in 1863. It was of VERY limited service, but was the first.