![]() The call for the new rifles was made as early as 1943 when the Japanese Navy’s elite naval infantry requested a weapon to increase their firepower. photo comparing the M1 and the Japanese Garand ( source) Like other Japanese rifles it has a two-piece split buttstock and two strengthening bars on the top and bottom of the semi-pistol grip of the stock. 30-06 it also had a number of external differences with a standard Japanese barleycorn-style front sight rather than a post and fitting for a Type 99 sword bayonet, as well as a rear tangent sight with a absolutely tiny and impractical aperture, instead of the M1′s aperture sight (see image #5), a stripper clip fed 10-round box magazine which protruded from the base of the receiver, and used standard Japanese sling swivels and a slightly different stock profile. These Japanese Garands used the American rifle’s gas system and rotating bolt but were chambered in Japan’s Type 99 rimless 7.7x58mm cartridge rather than the US’. ![]() There is some confusion over what this Japanese clone was designated, some describe it as the Type 4 while others have called it the Type 5. In 1944 the Japanese Navy produced a limited number of semi-automatic rifles, these were heavily based on the US M1 Garand which they had faced in the Pacific for the previous three years.
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