M14 Rifle History and Development

M14 Rifle History and Development

Online Edition Lee Emerson

June 03, 2007 Draft

Copyright 2005 - 2007 by Lee Emerson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Online Editions - October 10, 2006, June 03, 2007 "Sincere and strong love is greatly gratified and delighted in the prosperity of the beloved object; and if the love be perfect, the greater the prosperity of the beloved is, the more is the lover pleased and delighted; for the prosperity of the beloved is, as it were, the food of love, and therefore the greater that prosperity, the more richly is love feasted." ? Jonathan Edwards, Heaven, A World of Charity Or Love, Northampton, England, 1738. This book is dedicated to those who love and to those who love liberty.

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Table of Contents

Preface

9

Part 1: The Military M14

11

Introduction

11

Engineering Material

12

Engineering Definitions

13

AISI 4100 and 8600 Series Alloy Steels

15

M14 Rifle Preservation

16

M14 Rifle Lubrication

20

M14 Receiver Material

32

AISI 8620 Alloy Steel

34

How was the U. S. Government Issue (USGI) M14 receiver made?

35

Receiver Heat Treatment

36

Development of Magnetic Particle Inspection

37

USGI Receiver Geometry

38

Forming of Military Receivers

40

Intervening Rifle Models: M2 through M13

40

M14 Rifle Development Highlights

41

M14 Rifle Factory Inspection

47

M14 Production at Springfield Armory

48

M14 Production at Winchester

50

M14 Production at Harrington & Richardson

51

M14 Production at TRW

56

The TRW Mystique

57

Raritan Arsenal

59

Experimental Items for the USGI M14 Rifle

59

The Issue M14 Rifle

64

The M14 Rifle in Overhaul

69

M14 in Service with the U. S. Army and U. S. Marine Corps

70

The M14 in the U. S. Navy

79

The M14 in Other Service

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The M14 in the Arts and Entertainment Museum Collections Israel Defense Forces Other Foreign Hostile Action Taiwan Destruction and Export of USGI M14 Rifles Foreign Sales of USGI M14 Rifles M14E1 M14E2 and M14A1 M14 Grenadier M14 M M14 NM M15 U. S. Army Snipers and the XM21 and M21 M14 Product Improved Rifle XM25 and M25 M14 SMUD M14 DMR U. S. Marine Corps Scout-Snipers and the M14 Rifle M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle M14SE, Mk 14 SEI and M80 SDM Semi-automatic Only USGI M14 Rifles Hahn Machine Company and Pearl Manufacturing U. S. Civilian Ownership of Select Fire USGI and Chinese M14 Rifles Ignore the Petition to Sell the M14! Select Fire M14 Rifle Rate of Fire Modification

Part 2: The Commercial M14

U. S. Commercial Production of the M14 Type Rifle Characteristics of Commercial Receivers Commercial Receiver Geometry U. S. Commercial Manufacture Select Fire M14 Type Rifles Camp Perry Military Reservation

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M14 RIFLE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

Springfield Armory, Inc.

136

Texas Production

137

M1A Receiver Shipments from 1971 to 1975

143

Texas M1A Models

144

Texas M1A Barrel Markings

144

Transition from Texas to Illinois

145

Illinois Production

146

Illinois M1A Models

148

Springfield Armory, Inc. M1A Catalog Numbers

152

Gray-Syracuse, Inc., Valley Ordnance Co. and Hillside Manufacturing

154

Springfield Armory, Inc. and Glenn Nelson

163

Rock Island Armory, Inc.

164

Karl Maunz

164

H & R Gun Co. and Smith Ltd.

168

A. R. Sales Co., National Ordnance, Inc. and Federal Ordnance, Inc.

170

Armscorp of America, Inc. and Armscorp USA, Inc.

173

M36 and M89

175

Fulton Armory

176

Western Ordnance/Smith Enterprise, Inc.

177

Smith Enterprise, Inc. Receiver Design, Manufacture and Testing

178

Smith Enterprise, Inc. Receiver Identification

180

Smith Enterprise, Inc. M14 Services

181

M14K

181

AWC Systems Technology

182

Entreprise Arms

182

Hesse and Sarco, Inc.

183

Troy Industries, Inc.

183

LRB of Long Island, Inc.

185

Origin of Chinese M14 Rifles

188

Norinco and Poly Technologies Corporation

190

Production of Chinese M14 Type Rifles

191

Chinese M14 Type Rifle Export to the United States

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