The Garand Carbine,In the late 1930’s the US Military was looking for a light rifle/carbine, a
The Garand Carbine,In the late 1930’s the US Military was looking for a light rifle/carbine, and began holding trials for new designs. John Garand submitted this design, a simple blockback semi auto rifle chambered for .30 carbine. The first model had a magazine that was top mounted at a 45 degree angle. Magazines came in 5, 10, 20, and 50 round versions. Weighing only 4.9 pounds, the carbine impressed officials, but they perfered a carbine with a bottom feeding magazine. In the second trials Garand entered a new design with a bottom magazine, but it was significantly heavier and suffered functioning issues. As a result the Garand Carbine lost out to the M1 Carbine. -- source link
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