{"id":27864,"date":"2025-10-01T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/bommarito-americas-first-toggle-locked-battle-rifle\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:01:45","slug":"bommarito-americas-first-toggle-locked-battle-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/bommarito-americas-first-toggle-locked-battle-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bommarito: America\u2019s First Toggle-Locked Battle Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nuXpxa-dv8c?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Check out Headstamp Publishing&#8217;s extensive catalog of excellent books:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/home-forgotten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designed by Giuseppe Bommarito, this was one of the many independent rifle designs submitted to the US War Department in the 1910s hoping for military adoption. It is a short recoil operated, toggle-locked system chambered for .30-06 and using detachable 20-round magazines. It was tested (without much success) at Springfield and remained in development until 1918.<\/p>\n<p>See a more complete article including original disassembly photos here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/m1-garand-development\/us-bommarito-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/m1-garand-development\/us-bommarito-rifle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site for giving me access to this truly unique specimen from their reference collection to film for you! 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It is a short recoil operated, toggle-locked system chambered for .30-06 and using detachable 20-round magazines. It was tested (without&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/bommarito-americas-first-toggle-locked-battle-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bommarito: America\u2019s First Toggle-Locked Battle Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}