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The “U.S. Semi-Automatic Rifle, Caliber .30, M1” was a remarkable achievement. It was the first general issue semi-automatic rifle of any nation. But the rifle that went to war in 1941 wasn’t the rifle the U.S. Army adopted in 1936. And it was a rifle that the Army did not want the NRA to evaluate. What were they hiding? From adoption until the start of World War II, the U.S. Army and the National Rifle Association were at odds over the M1 rifle. Did NRA hate the M1 rifle? Why would the United States Army not talk to the NRA? These are questions that will be answered by American Rifleman Editor-in-Chief Mark Keefe in a presentation that addresses the biggest rift between the NRA and the Army Ordnance Department. Attend the American Rifleman Special Presentation,"NRA, American Rifleman and the M1 Garand Rifle,"at theNRA Annual Meetings & Exhibitsin Dallas, Sunday, May 6, 2018 (1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Room 141, 143 and 149) to find out. Regular session attendees know the seats fill up fast, often rendering the event Standing Room Only. In other words, get there early!
In our latest "I Carry" segment, we pair the new Taurus TX9 Compact with a leather Stow-N-Go holster from Galco, Inc. This compact, concealed-carry kit is rounded out with an Xolotl automatic knife produced by CRKT.
Canik USA built out its concealed-carry handgun lineup with the MC9 Prime, which is a larger, yet still slim, CCW gun that sits in the same category as other upsized micro-compacts.
The U.S. Army has awarded O.F. Mossberg & Sons a contract for approximately $11.6 million dollars to supply the U.S. Army with additional Mossberg 590A1 pump-action shotguns.
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.