sentences:  Modern infantry rifles and machine guns were not manufactured, with the sole exception of a light machine-rifle, the Mle 1924.The French heavy machine gun was still the Hotchkiss M1914, a capable weapon but decidedly obsolete compared to the new automatic weapons of German infantry.A modern infantry rifle was adopted in 1936 but very few of these MAS-36 rifles had been issued to the troops by 1940.