This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

The M14 rifle, designed in the 1950s to be the US military’s single, do-it-all battle rifle, had a notoriously short and ...

The M1 Garand has been lauded as the greatest battle rifle of all time. Most shooters recognize one, ... For various reasons, the Army wanted it in the already standard-issue .30/06 Springfield. Early ...

JFK’s M1 Garand sold for nearly $150,000. Story by Miguel Ortiz • 4mo. J ohn F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and one of the most famous.

Developed as a semi-automatic version of the M14 service rifle, the M1A blends design elements of the M1 Garand with a detachable box magazine and is still a popular rifle for competition today.

Visiting the Springfield Armory Museum, retired inventor John C. Garand inspects an early model of his M1 "Garand," chief combat rifle of World War II and Korea. Image by Wally Huntington, Hampden ...

Garand, John C. Location Currently not on view Credit Line Department of Defense. Marine Corps Museum ID Number AF.84458M catalog number 84458M accession number 1978.0623 ... SPRINGFIELD ARMORY M1 ...

If there’s any one thing that the Springfield M1A rifle will be known for, ... which was basically a shortened version of the .30-06 Springfield round that the M1 Garand was chambered for.

A number of different companies, including Springfield, Remington, and Winchester, then began to work on upgrading the M1 Garand rifle to accept box fed magazines and with a new caliber.

Rate of Fire. The M1 Garand was the first semi-automatic rifle used by the U.S. Army—from 1936 through 1957—able to put out 40-50 rounds per minute without breaking a sweat. Semi-automatic ...

The M1 Garand armed a nation and helped to win a world war. Search. Pop Mech Pro; ... Garand began working at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts on a series of semi-automatic rifle designs in ...