4 Dec 2021 Garand / M14 Picture of the Day

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Arms seized from Suadi Hamja’s gang, including vintage M1 Garand rifles

Troops Rescue Chief Engineer from Abu Sayyaf

So, where did all the M14's come from? Arsenal theft?

There's also M16s at top, could these all not be from LL program?

They are MAP guns stolen or captured in raids. The GCA Journal wrote up the surrender and disarming of Abu Sayyaf three times starting in 2019... lots of great pictures of recovered guns like those shown, some comically customized.
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is that a bent barrel, bottom right of the second pic? I don't see a butt sticking up out of the stack.

loose Gas Cylinder

Too bad there isn't a place for GCA members to view past issues. Spring 2019 looks like a good read.

If I remember correctly at the time the PRC was making copies of the M14 for the Communist Guerillas in the Philippines. I remember seeing a ship that was wrecked off the Philippine coast with bundles of M14s being recovered.

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Originally Posted by fjruple

the PRC was making copies of the M14

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As in...the Norinco 305? They had chu wood stocks or black plastic, not walnut, birch or USGI fiberglass like these. Those guys wouldn't be changing them, or even maintaining as illustrated.

Those rifles had a hard life. They were given about as much care as a ditch digger gives to a shovel...