>>538521
>Garand
It really shows the industrial capacities of the USA, but it seems to be a kind of an unicorn, because they had a clear idea what they want from the rifle, and it delivered all of that without being bogged down by useless "development", and it required nearly no "refinements" to work as intended. And it was indeed state-of-the-art technology that they didn't buy off-the-shelf and also didn't fuck up. Garand himself was a French-Canadian immigrant, but I'd say it adds to that typical successful immigrant image the USA likes to employ in its brain drain propaganda. With all that said, I'd argue for the M14:
>had an old-fashioned stock after ww2 showed how a separate pistol grip is a must
>promised to be a superweapon, replacing everything from smgs to sniper rifles, and failed to do so
>had a completely new cartridge developed for it, that was just a bit shorter version of the previous one
>actually, the weapon and the cartridge were the end results of a drawn-out experimental program that was rigged in its favour, because a few people were greedy, and an other few were the worst kind of patriotards
>it was marketed as a cheap option, because it was supposed to use most of the Garand's tooling
>the fucking Italians did a better mag-fed select-fire Garand firing 7.62x51mm, and they developed it faster
It's the perfect blend of the worst aspect of the fudd and the tactcool mindsets, and it's the result of a bad and wasteful government program.
>Hey, free publicity. Getting a jew to give something away for free is quite the accomplishment.
Indeed, that's why it would be so successful. You'd have fucking CNN showing pictures from a legit axis glamour shot, going on about how the second shoah is upon us. And it's gnadzeesm, so even Fox News and co would get into it. It's only natural that the rest of the world's media would follow suit and pick up the story. Even Russian state television would show everyone how fascism is on the rise again. And you'd just need a pretty girl and maybe the willingness to ruin a perfectly fine replica of a ww2 uniform.