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The M1 Garand or M1 rifle [nb 1] is a semi-automatic rifle that was the service rifle of the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. The rifle is chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge and is named after its Canadian-American designer, John Garand .
Jean Cantius Garand (/ ˈ ɡ ær ən d / GARR-ənd, French: [ʒɑ̃ ɡaʁɑ̃]; January 1, 1888 – February 16, 1974), also known as John C. Garand, was a Canadian-American designer of firearms who created the M1 Garand, a semi-automatic rifle that was widely used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps during both World War II and the Korean War.
The M1 Garand was designed by John Garand in 1936 and initially produced for the United States military. Shortly after the Mondragón rifle was produced, France introduced its own semi-automatic rifle, the Fusil Automatique Modele 1917. It had a locked breech, gas-operated action that was similar in its mechanical principles to the American M1 ...
This was the famous M1, or "Garand rifle" as it came to be known. The army adopted the rifle in 1936, and production began the next year. This began what was to become the greatest production effort in the armory's history: during the entire production history of the M1 rifle, the Springfield Armory produced over 4.5 million of them.
The M14 Owner's Guide and Match Conditioning Instructions. Scott A. Duff Publications, 1996. ISBN 1-888722-07-X; U. S. March 1989 foreign small arms import ban Semi-automatic rifles banned from importation in 1989; Emerson, Lee and contributing editors Different's M1A/M14 Information Archive Archived 2018-05-10 at the Wayback Machine
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A lone Palestinian sniper, 22-year-old Tha'ir Kayid Hammad (Arabic: ثائر كايد حمّاد), a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades from the village of Silwad carried out the attack. He had acquired an old World War II -era M1 Garand rifle and 30 rounds of ammunition and had done target practice in the valleys around Silwad.