{"id":5412,"date":"2019-05-24T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/frances-final-battle-rifle-iteration-the-mas-49-56\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:45:48","slug":"frances-final-battle-rifle-iteration-the-mas-49-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/frances-final-battle-rifle-iteration-the-mas-49-56\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Final Battle Rifle Iteration: The MAS 49-56"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0zqyAzsW1Y?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Preorders now open for my book, &#8220;Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016&#8221;! Get your copy here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/french-rifle-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/french-rifle-book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the development of the MAS 49 had given France a very utilitarian rifle that could serve as both for both marksmen and grenadiers, it could still be made better. In large part, the change to the 49-56 pattern was motivated by the move to adopt NATO-compatible 22mm rifle grenades. With the new muzzle hardware, several other changes were made. A gas cutoff was added, to prevent wear and tear on the action from grenade use (something that was found to be a real problem on the MAS 49). The gas port was also moved farther down the barrel, and the handguard and barrel were both shortened to make the rifle a bit lighter and handier. <\/p>\n<p>Production began in 1957, and about 175,000 of the rifles were made, seeing as France&#8217;s standard front-line infantry rifle until the adoption of the FAMAS in 1979.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preorders now open for my book, &#8220;Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016&#8221;! Get your copy here: https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/french-rifle-book While the development of the MAS 49 had given France a very utilitarian rifle that could serve as both for both marksmen and grenadiers, it could still be made better. In large part, the change to the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/frances-final-battle-rifle-iteration-the-mas-49-56\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">France&#8217;s Final Battle Rifle Iteration: The MAS 49-56<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5413,"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-5412","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\/5412","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=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13654,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/13654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}