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...rifle. Last winter the Marine Corps decided to have the rifle matter out once and for all. A board was appointed to test the bolt-action Springfield and three semi-automatic rifles (Garand, Winchester, Johnson). The board included such acknowledged experts as Lieut. Colonel William W. Ashurst, a crack rifleman, and Lieut. Colonel Merritt A. Edson, who had earned Marine Corps fame in Nicaragua, hunting down Sandinistas. The Winchester, barely out of the laboratory, was never in the running. The much-publicized Johnson did better than the Winchester, did not equal the Garand in overall performance...
...Best chance a rifleman has against tanks is to draw a bead on an open turret, fire port, pot driver or gunner. (More common will be the officially sanctioned practice of seeking the nearest ditch...
...vice president of the authoritative (though civilian) National Rifle Association. "My opinion," testified General Reckord, "is that the War Department has made a very grave mistake. . . ." Just how grave the mistake may have been, General Reckord's N. R. A. disclosed in the May issue of its American Rifleman...
...Rifleman expert (F. C. Ness) somehow got one of the jealously guarded Garands, tested it by firing a moderate 692 rounds in three days. Mr. Ness's verdict: "A fine combat weapon, with certain shortcomings. "He emphasized the shortcomings...
...Chamber of Deputies on the opposite bank. Mobile Guards, assembled by the Daladier Government, fired into the crowd: 24 were killed, hundreds injured. Next day, without waiting for a vote from the Chamber, the Premier resigned, a thoroughly discredited, despised politician. The Right nicknamed him Le Fusilleur ("The Rifleman"). The Left accused him of cowardice...