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Here is a Maxim Model 1910 silencer on the US M1903 rifle. In the 1910s the US Army did actually purchase several hundred Maxim Silencers for use on the M1903 rifle, first the Model 1910 shown here and then the Model 1915 "Government" pattern, and they may have seen combat use in WW1. Ordnance documents place a couple hundred of the rifles & silencers at AEF depots in France, the last stop before actually going to the front line. Whether or not they actually saw combat is unknown.

One of the most common complaints against the use of the Maxim silencer is that it could not easily mount a bayonet. The Model 1910 shown here had a special variant of the US M1905 bayonet which could fit underneath the silencer, but since it mounted to the standard rifle bayonet lug only about 4" of the blade actually projected beyond the muzzle of the silencer.