Garand designed the rifle while working for the U.S. government at Springfield Armory and gave them his patent rights to his creation. Ironically, in the March, 1974 issue of the NRA’s American ...

The M14 rifle, designed in the 1950s to be the US military’s single, do-it-all battle rifle, had a notoriously short and ...

The first rifle made at the Armory was the Springfield Charleville, an exact copy of what the French had been producing for the colonies. Soldiers had to stand-up, use a ramrod to jam gunpowder ...

Developed as a civilian alternative to the military M14 rifle, Springfield Armory’s M1A has been around since 1974. In fact, Springfield Armory just celebrated the 50-year milestone of the M1A ...

These firearms include the Colt M4 Carbine, the AK-47 based Zastava ZPAP rifle, and the Springfield M1A, a rifle based on the M14, the U.S. military’s standard issue rifle in the mid-20th century.

Originally produced by the Springfield Armory, the U.S. government contracted 20 other private gunmakers, which, together, produced an estimated 1 million M1861 rifle muskets throughout the war.

This historical re-enactment film from the early 1980s titled “Springfield Armory” is a National Park Service Museum film that was presented by the National park Service U.S. Department of the ...

The new M14 rifle was first delivered to U.S. Army units in the summer of 1959, but it didn’t take until the early to mid 1960s before the M14 had nearly completely phased out the M1 Garand.

For starters, in this author's humble opinion, there's no greater bolt-action military rifle than any gen-you-wine 1903 Springfield series 30-06, but those are getting crazy expensive these days ...