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Without the machine gun in WWI, it would have been very different. Machine guns were used very much in WWI. They were used to mow down soldiers that were trying to rush the trenches, and so they were very effective for defending the trench from oncoming soldiers. Without the machine gun, bolt action rifles and bayonets, along with Mills bombs would have been the main weapons. Bolt action rifles are much slower to shoot than machine guns, and therefore trenches would have been conquered much more easily.

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