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At one time, the National Rifle Association really didn't like the M1 Garand. Here's the story behind this unique chapter in military history.

In an "I Have This Old Gun" segment, ARTV takes a look at the Gas Trap Garand.

Here are directions to the tank farm,” said American Rifleman’s Design Chief Steve McKelvain as he handed me a still warm, already curling fax with a crudely drawn map.

Published first in the January 1994 issue of American Rifleman, the author explains how the rifle so familiar to millions of Americans wasn’t John C. Garand’s initial successful version, the little-known rarity collectors call the “gas trap” M1.