30, Automatic, Browning, M1918'-had plenty of power.

The Browning BAR-designated “Rifle, Caliber. While soldiers could lay down a curtain of fire the guns proved to be underpowered (i.e., not lethal enough) in many circumstances. infantrymen used submachine guns to great effect. In fact, the term refers to a fully-automatic rifle that fires pistol-caliber cartridges. Popular culture has decided that a submachine gun is any automatic rife. While the M1A is a semiautomatic-only rifle it’s close enough to the fully-automatic M14 to make the most grizzled Vietnam vet turn all dewy-eyed. With its walnut stock and Parkerized metal, the Springfield M1A is a line-by-line clone of the as-issued M14, from its flash hider (or a muzzle break in AWB states) to its butt flapper. Springfield Armory’s semi-automatic M1A is all that and a bag of chips and you don’t have to enlist to get our hands on one. Less than ten years after Uncle Sam issued the M14 to the troops, the M16 succeeded the “United States Rifle, 7.62 mm, M14.' And yet the M14 remains in service, for three reasons: durability, reliability and accuracy. standard issue, select-fire infantry rifle chambered for a full-power.

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