[editor-surveyor]

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>> “then explain the Garand” <<

Easy:

The need to make lots of lead fly rapidly, accurately, and reliably.
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[Bryanw92]

>>Easy:

>>The need to make lots of lead fly rapidly, accurately, and reliably.

Exactly. But the other poster, who says he is an expert on Army weapons, says that an AR-15 does meet the Army definition of “firepower”, so an 8-shot Garand certainly would not.