I have held John C. Garand’s Garand—serial number 1,000,000—but today I was able to hold another of the great arms designer’s guns. And odds are it is not what you think. While in Nashville at the NRA ...

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I've got a very sad story to tell, it's about the recent plight of an old American war hero. In 1936, the M1 Garand rifle, named after its French-Canadian inventor John Garand, replaced the model 1903 ...

Shreveporter Bruce Canfield, a noted expert on post-Civil War weaponry, will be the featured speaker later this month in Springfield, Massachusetts, at the at the 80th anniversary of the M1 Garand ...

The World War II M1 Carbine was never actually meant to be a front-line infantry weapon. Rather, the U.S. Army had envisaged soldiers in support roles using the gun strictly for last-ditch, personal ...

In February 1944, Pat Renna was aboard a U.S. transport ship en route from San Diego to the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. There the Marines would capture their first Japanese territory. During the ...

For the ignorant readers of this newspaper, the term AR-15 does not stand for assault rifle, automatic rifle, or any such nonsense. It stands for Armalite Rifle (the name of the original manufacturer ...