Description:
(American Designer of Firearms Who Created the 'M1 Garand', a Semi-automatic Rifle) One of his parents’ 12 children, Canadian-born John Garand moved to the U.S. with his father and siblings after his mother’s death. He went from working in a textile mill as a child to creating the semi-automatic rifle M1 Garand, used widely by the U.S. military in World War II.
