Garand inspects an early model of his M1 "Garand," chief combat rifle of World War II and Korea. This article, "Military Rifles: M1 to M14" appeared originally in the in the March 1974 issue of ...

The M14 was designed in 1954 and officially became the standard-issue rifle for the U.S. Armed Forces from 1959 to 1964, with over 1 million units produced over that relatively short span of time.