For various reasons, the Army wanted it in the already standard-issue .30/06 Springfield. Early designs for the M1 Garand used 10-round clips and were chambered in .276 Pedersen. .276 Pedersen patent ...

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The focal point was ditching the eight-round en-bloc clip (which loaded top-down) for a proper twenty-round box magazine that loaded from the bottom up—a feature that Garand wanted in the M1 but ...

The M1 Garand service ... magazine-fed from “clips or chargers,” and entirely semi-automatic and not fire fully automatic by malfunction. John C. Garand, an employee of the U.S. Government ...

The U.S. infantryman by comparison was equipped with the M1 Garand, which in addition to being semi-automatic—offering a higher rate of fire—held eight rounds. As it was fed by en bloc clips ...