GMC Military Arms wrote:Samozaryadnyastan wrote:A full-auto variant was planned to replace the BAR as an infantry automatic rifle, but I don't think it reached the intended deployment numbers, for whatever reason.
Early M14s were full-auto, but it fell into the same "wishful thinking" category as things like the FG42; the M14 is too light for any soldier who forgot to become a giant ogre to handle it in full-auto. It was supposed to replace the M3, M1 Garand, M1 Carbine and BAR all at once, but ended up being the shortest-issued standard rifle in the history of the US military.
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