History GunsOfFiction / BattleRifles

Perhaps THE semi-automatic rifle, and usually one of the first things people imagine when they think of a [=WW2=]-era rifle. One of the first semi-automatic weapons fielded by a major army, it fired 8 rounds of .30-06 Springfield from its internal clip-fed magazine,[[note]]The original design had a 10-round clip, weighed a pound less, and fired a 7mm cartridge called .276 Pedersen. But UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, at the time the Army Chief of Staff, decided that replacing the hundreds of thousands of rifles and machine guns and literally ''billions'' of .30-06 rounds already in the inventory would be too expensive (given that it was the middle of TheGreatDepression, he had a point) and ordered that the Garand be redesigned to fire the existing ammo.[[/note]] and continues to be a sticking point among people trying to explain the difference between a clip and a magazine, as one of the few examples of the clip itself being physically inserted into a weapon's internal magazine (as pictured above). Legendary durability and surprisingly low recoil for a .30-06 rifle was a plus, too, though the gun has a nasty snap to its action that can lead to a common and painful complaint known as "rifleman's thumb" or more simply "M1 thumb."[[note]]The bolt will snap forward when a clip is inserted without the bolt properly latched back or if a user presses down the magazine follower during cleaning. The correct way to load a Garand in battle is to pull back the bolt until it locks open (not let it sit on the follower plate) and hold the bolt with the end side of your palm while you press down the clip with your thumb.[[/note]]

* The [=G28=] variant appears as a 4-star Rifle in ''VideoGame/GirlsFrontline''. Her personality is almost a complete opposite of [=HK416=]'s, being extremely outgoing and laid-back.