The Guns of Garand Part IV — The Garand CarbineFor Part I, Part II, Part IIIIn the late 1930’s
The Guns of Garand Part IV — The Garand CarbineFor Part I, Part II, Part IIIIn the late 1930’s the US Military was looking for a light rifle/carbine to serve as a personal defense weapon for, support troops, artillerymen, and other rear echelon soldiers as well as paratroopers. John Garand submitted this design in 1941, 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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