{"id":8131,"date":"2018-11-13T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:57:36","slug":"mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14\/","title":{"rendered":"MC58: A USMC Semiauto Trainer 22 for the M14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdwkJrqDcW8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14\/<\/a><\/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>When the USMC adopted the M1 Garand in 1942, they decided they would like to have a new semiautomatic training rifle in .22 rimfire to go along with it. Eugene Reising, working for Harrington &#038; Richardson, promptly produced a semiauto .22 LR version of his military submachine gun to fulfill that role, designated the Model 65. This rifle had a stock and barrel sized to duplicate the handling of the M1, and a nice aperture sight as well. By 1945, between 6,000 and 10,000 had been sold to the military, and total sales would reach about 18,500. After the war, H&#038;R attempted to make the rifle more popular on the commercial market as the Leatherneck, Model 150, and Model 151, but sales were tepid.<\/p>\n<p>In 1958, the USMC contracted for another quantity of the rifles, as they were adopting the M14 at that time. Several minor changes were made to the rifle, and one significant one &#8211; the safety was changed from a Reising type lever to an M1\/M14 type safety located in the front of the trigger guard. This new pattern was designated the MC-58, and about 3500 were purchased by the Corps in 1958 and 1959. Serial numbers on the MC-58 rifles began at 6,000 and went to about 9,500, suggesting that 6,000 Model 65 rifles were originally purchased by the Marines during World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14\/ http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons When the USMC adopted the M1 Garand in 1942, they decided they would like to have a new semiautomatic training rifle in .22 rimfire to go along with it. Eugene Reising, working for Harrington &#038; Richardson, promptly produced a semiauto .22 LR version of his military submachine gun&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/mc58-a-usmc-semiauto-trainer-22-for-the-m14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MC58: A USMC Semiauto Trainer 22 for the M14<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8132,"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-8131","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\/8131","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=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14016,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions\/14016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}