User blog comment:Zephalian/Battlefield DLC TBA/@comment-24794683-20120217015453/@comment-28584497-20120218050711

You can't exclude older semi-automatic rifles from your definition; the phrase "battle rifle" is somewhat flexible, but if you include those old rifles you have to include them all -- thus, the M1 Garand is hardly the "first battle rifle ever". Sounds more like propaganda to me...

Most of what are considered battle rifles are, again, select-fire, like the G3, FAL, SCAR (H-variant), M14, etc. Personally I'd exclude those old rifles, because they're really just rifles. I'm pretty sure none of them would be called a battle rifle by their contemporaries.