John Garand’s first semi-automatic rifle prototype, the T1919, fed from a 20-round, detachable box magazine. One of the best-known and most-respected U.S. military service rifles of all time is ...

Garand inspects an early model of his M1 "Garand," chief combat rifle of World War II and Korea. This article, "Military Rifles: M1 to M14" appeared originally in the in the March 1974 issue of ...

The historical significance of the M1 Garand can't be overstated. It was the first semi-automatic military rifle to be employed as a standard shoulder weapon, a point that was quite notable at the ...

gas-operated infantry rifle … His early efforts showed a great deal of promise, and Garand would eventually patent his “Semiautomatic, Caliber .30, M1 Rifle” during 1932. However ...