page_title: MAS-36 rifle
section_title: Users
hierarchical_section_title: MAS-36 rifle / Users
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Des combattants sahraouis du Front Polisario
context_page_description: The MAS Modèle 36 is a military bolt-action rifle. First adopted in 1936 by France and intended to replace the Berthier and Lebel series of service rifles, it saw service long past the World War II period. It was manufactured from late 1937 onward by Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne, one of several government-owned arms factories in France. Only 250,000 MAS-36 rifles were available to equip the French infantry during the Battle of France in 1940. Mass production finally caught up after World War II and MAS-36 rifles became widely used in service during the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. Altogether, about 1.1 million MAS-36 rifles had been manufactured when production ceased in 1952.
context_section_description:  Algeria
   Benin
   Biafra
   Burkina Faso
   Cambodia
   Cameroon
   Central African Republic
  Central African Armed Forces
  Central African National Police
  Séléka
   Chad: governmental armies (Forces Armées Tchadiennes and Forces Armées Nationales Tchadiennes) and rebels of the GUNT and FROLINAT
   Comoros
   Congo-Brazzaville
   Djibouti
   France
  Free French Forces and French Resistance
  Vichy Regime
  Post-war French Army
   Gabon
   Guinea
   Haiti
   Ivory Coast
   Laos: Captured during First Indochina War and Vietnam War.
   Kingdom of Laos: Received from French government during First Indochina War 1945–1954.
   Lebanon
   Madagascar
   Mali: People's Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
   Mauritania
   Monaco
  Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince
   Morocco: Royal Moroccan Armed Forces and Moroccan Army of Liberation
   Nazi Germany: Designated Gewehr 242(f). Issued to occupation units in France and to Volkssturm units.
   Niger
   Poland: Used by the some units of the Polish Army in France in 1940
   Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Polisario Front)
   Senegal
   Syria
   Togo
   Vietnam
   South Vietnam
   ISIL: Used by ISIL insurgents in 2019
caption: Soldiers of the Polisario Front with a MAS-36 in 1980.
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