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

When commercial gunmaker Springfield Armory decided to begin making and selling a civilian version of the M14 rifle, it didn’t seem a plan long for this world.

Springfield Armory produces a semi-automatic M1A rifle of superb quality and Fulton Armory does likewise with its M14 series for civilians. These rifles do not come cheap.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In April 1958, the government-owned Springfield Armory in Massachusetts initiated production of the M14 rifle. The product of nearly 15 years of research and development, the new weapon could ...

U.S. Models 1855 and 1861 Springfield rifle-muskets ... The M1 Garand was replaced as the standard issue U.S. military rifle by the M14 rifle in 1960. Though it borrowed features from the Garand ...

The military began phasing out use of the .30-06 with the introduction of the select-fire M14 rifle and M60 machine gun, which were both chambered in 7.62x51mm (.308 Win) in the late 1950s. The .308 ...

This SPRINGFIELD SOCOM 16 M1A FOR LE version of the venerable M1A can be an effective close quarters battle rifle or just a great "ranch gun." This rifle has the minimum length ...