Government rifle that has been inspected, headspaced, repaired if necessary and test fired for function The garand was the first semiautomatic military rifle used as a standard combat shoulder weapon It was the basic u.s Infantry weapon in both world war ii and the korean war. With nearly 20 years of active infantry service and accredited by general george s Patton as βthe greatest battle implement ever devised,β the m1 garand is one of the most notable service rifles in history
Itβs a rifle that was revolutionary, effective, and for many decades, common. While the m1 rifle was never officially referred to as the garand, it is known by no other name so widely First adopted in 1936, the m1 rifle served the us in world war ii, korea, a host of police actions and interventions, and, in the hands of allies, in the vietnam war. Although the m1 garand was officially obsolete from that time forward, it remained in service around the world through the viet nam era It was and is truly an amazing rifle, and its inventor john c Garand ranks among the very best of patriots.
That year the united states army took bids on designs for a light machine gun, and garand's design was eventually selected by the war department. At nine years old during world war i, he was encapsulated by firearms at a young ageβa time that saw.
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