The M14 was the standard infantry rifle for all Army and Marine units that deployed to Vietnam in 1965, but Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ended procurement in 1964, selecting the M16 as a ...

Key Points and Summary – The M14 rifle, designed in the 1950s to be the US military’s single, do-it-all battle rifle, had a notoriously short and troubled service life. -While powerful, its ...

The M14 served the shortest stint of any battle rifle in the U.S. military – its tenure lasting only from 1957 to 1964. When production was halted, just 1,380,874 rifles had been manufactured.

The gas system of the Winchester Model 100 semi-automatic sporting rifle is similar to that of the M14 rifle. This was pointed out by Winchester when the Model 100 was announced in 1960.—E.H ...

Flawed and designed for a war with the Soviet Union in Europe that never came, the M14 with its large 7.62 mm round was America’s last full-power, or “battle rifle,” before the age of ...