{"id":305,"date":"2018-08-13T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/08\/13\/forgotten-weapons-garand-primer\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:17","slug":"forgotten-weapons-garand-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Weapons: Garand Primer-Activated 1924 Trials Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn this video, Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons looks at one of John Garand&#8217;s early rifles. The Model of 1924 Trials Rifle was primer-activated. That is, the primer would come out of the pocket in the brass and push a small piston back. This would serve to unlock the bolt and the autoloading process would go on from there.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first that I&#8217;ve ever heard about such a system and I find it both intriguing and horrifying. Intriguing because it simplifies the barrel of the rifle &#8211; no gas ports needed &#8211; and horrifying because of the potential for failure or worse.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" src=\"https:\/\/www.full30.com\/embed\/72772336d14ef682d20acd897888fc5b\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons looks at one of John Garand&#8217;s early rifles. The Model of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,72,798,799],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-forgotten-weapons-blog","tag-ian-mccollum","tag-john-c-garand","tag-rifle-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11543,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/11543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}