Much like a lot of the military hardware of World War II—everything from the M1 Garand to the M4 Sherman tank to the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber to the U.S. Navy's Iowa-class battleships—what ...

However, Kennedy’s M1 Garand rifle is from neither his presidency nor his time in the Navy. In 1957, the U.S. military introduced the M14 as its standard-issue service rifle and started to phase ...