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  • noun Plural form of Garand.

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Examples

  • I have hunted with 03-A3, M1 Garands and M1A's so why not!

    Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR? 2009

  • Of course they had BARs and SMGs, but those are specialist weapons, and they had no Garands.

    Shotguns in Combat 2009

  • There is NO resaon why people shouldn't hunt with AR-15's, AK's, SKS's, FN FAL's, M1 Garands, and any other military rifles.

    does anyone else think military looking rifles shouldnt be used for hunting? 2009

  • There is NO resaon why people shouldn't hunt with AR-15's, AK's, SKS's, FN FAL's, M1 Garands, and any other military rifles.

    does anyone else think military looking rifles shouldnt be used for hunting? 2009

  • I have hunted with 03-A3, M1 Garands and M1A's so why not!

    Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR? 2009

  • I don't even own one of the cheap Surplus Garands the CMF sells.

    Why I'm Not Buying a Black Rifle 2009

  • Of course they had BARs and SMGs, but those are specialist weapons, and they had no Garands.

    Shotguns in Combat 2009

  • Here, just next door to the Garands, are some British Enfield rifles which were captured by the Japanese in Indo-China, then taken over by the Americans and used in Vietnam, before they were bought by Cummings.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • “During the enemy Tet offensive of 1968 the crisp, rattling sounds of the AK-47s echoing in Saigon and some other cities,” he said, “seemed to make a mockery of the weaker, single shots of Garands and carbines fired by stupefied friendly troops.”

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • In 1994, when my last Special Forces team, Operational Detachment Alpha 354, entered the Haitian city of Gonaives, I along with three members of that detachment waded through a huge and agitated crowd to encounter four soldiers and two plainclothes death squad members about to fire into that crowd with M-1 Garands.

    Stan Goff: Honduras Coup 2009

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