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In just a few decades, the U.S. Army would see itself go from a single-shot, blackpowder design in the form of the Trapdoor Springfield to a modern, semi-automatic fighting rifle in the M1 Garand.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The M1A shares many similarities to the M14, but is semi-automatic rather than selective fire. If there’s any one thing that the Springfield M1A rifle will be known ...

If there’s any one thing that the Springfield M1A rifle will be known for, it’s that it’s the semi-automatic civilian version of the military’s selective fire M14 rifle that has been in continuous ...