Shooting a more recent production Springfield Armory M1A, the semi-automatic version of the M14. The M14 service rifle debuted in 1959 as a select-fire magazine-fed adaptation of John Garand's design.

In 1962, the government’s Springfield Armory—the U.S. arsenal in Massachusetts that is linked by name only to the current Illinois-based company—was instructed to create some modified M14 ...