Created for freezing battlefields, the M1 Garand’s winter trigger was an ingenious solution for gloved hands—but it came with serious risks. This fold-down extension allowed soldiers to fire without ...

During World War I, the United States Army experimented with a number of different machine gun designs, and the news reports of the tests got a young inventor thinking about, and eventually designing, ...

The M1 Garand was named for her inventor, John Cantius Garand, who was born in Quebec, Canada, but moved to the United States along with his father and eleven siblings after their mother passed away ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: There’s no better asset than reliability. Gen. George Patton, the renowned World War II commander who possessed a sizable ego, called the M-1 Garand rifle “the greatest ...

With nearly 20 years of active infantry service and accredited by General George S. Patton as “the greatest battle implement ever devised,” the M1 Garand is one of the most notable service rifles in ...