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IWI Carmel
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “assault rifle designed and manufactured by israeli weapon industries”. Today it says “originally designed as an assault rifle capable of fully automatic fire”.
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Rrifle platform manufactured by Israel Weapon Industries The IWI Carmel was originally designed as an assault rifle capable of fully automatic fire, but the final design became a semi-automatic rifle . It is manufactured by Israeli Weapon Industries , and exported by IWI US to the U.S. commercial and law enforcement market. It was first revealed at the LAAD Defense & Security exhibition in Rio in April 2019.
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Then
assault rifle designed and manufactured by israeli weapon industries
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originally designed as an assault rifle capable of fully automatic fire
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