Rifle - U.S. Cal. .30 M1 - Principles of Operation

This Army Training film explains the principles of operation of the M1 (Garand) Infantry Rifle / The US Rifle M1 was the first semiautomatic rifle to be the standard small arm of the US Military, requiring a trigger pull to fire a round but automatically chambering the next round. / This not only greatly increased the rate of fire over bolt-action rifles, but made it far easier to reacquire a target after each round. / It was also the first semiautomatic rifle to be adopted by a major military power. / It was the product of a genuine genius, John Cantius Garand.