>>279575353
It's a good gun. It was a bad gun for its time and its development was a shitfest. People jerk off the Garand and shit on the M14, but they're nearly the same thing except the M14 came out almost 20 years later at a point in history when that kind of weapon was obsolete. The individual design elements of the M14 were all available during the Garand's trials before WW2, so if the Army had more foresight it could have been the M1 and gone down in history as one of the greatest rifles instead.

It's actually a super comfy gun to shoot (in semi.) I sold my Garand after getting one.