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Happy Independence Day: Guns of the Grunt 1776-2020
by Chris EgerBack-to-back World War champs and arguably the strongest military in the world, America's Soldiers have carried a wide array of rifles in the past 244 years.
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The Battle of the Bulge at 75: The Guns They Carried
by Chris EgerSome 75 years ago this week, Hitler launched the last great German offensive of WWII through the densely forested Ardennes region-- and it was stopped by American guns.
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Operation Market Garden at 75: The Guns of the Paratroopers
by Chris EgerThis week marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the largest combat airborne drop in history. These are the guns the paratroopers carried.
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Gun Review: Inland M1A1 Paratrooper Carbine in .30 Carbine
by Terril James HerbertI wanted to get my hands-on Inland’s M1A1 paratrooper as it is a variant of the M1 Carbine that doesn’t get much attention.
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Study: 175 million military self-loading rifles produced since 1896
by Chris EgerA new study released by the Small Arms Survey found that over half of all autoloading rifles ever made for military use are either AK-type or AR-10/15 type designs.
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Mythbusting commonly held tropes of loading the M1 Garand (VIDEOS)
by Chris EgerThe difference between clip and magazine, the old 8+1 load, Garand thumb causes, the "ping" and how to load less than a full clip are explained by Bloke on the Range.
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Got Kahr questions? There’s an app for that
by Jacki BillingsKahr Firearms Group jumps on the tech bandwagon with a new mobile app that opens up a wealth of information on the gun maker’s collection.
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WWII Marine Raider’s M1 undergoing preservation at Navy lab (4 PHOTOS)
by Chris EgerDuring the darkest part of the war in the Pacific, a group of Marine Raiders stormed Japanese-held Makin Island. Today one of their Garands left behind is undergoing long-term preservation.
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Take a trip back in time through the gun ads of the good ol days (18 PHOTOS)
by Chris EgerAn anti-tank gun for $98.50? $9.99 Mosins! Flip through an old magazine from yesteryear and you will come across deals that you could only dream of today.
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Revisiting the M1 Carbine (VIDEO)
by Chris EgerKirsten Joy Weiss takes a quick look at the venerable U.S. Carbine Caliber .30 M1, its origins, and its operation.
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This WWII-era Battle of the Bulge relic M1 Garand tells a story (VIDEO)
by Chris EgerThe NRA Museum, in honor of the 71st anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, brought out a relic M1 dug up from the Ardennes near the Belgium border that has seen better days.
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M1 Garand – Another Storied Gun
by Tom McHaleThe familiar name, M1 Garand, is from the inventor John Garand, who spent a 34-year career designing & improving semi-automatic military rifles at the Springfield Armory...
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