Garand rifle

Standard US military rifle from 1936 until the late 1950s. The first automatic rifle to be adopted as standard by any major power, its undoubted success in combat led to a reappraisal of this type of weapon by all combatants.

The Garand was a .30 in calibre gas-operated semi-automatic weapon firing from an eight shot magazine; it was replaced by the M14, a modified design in 7.62 mm NATO calibre using a 20-round magazine.