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All three rifles shoot a .30 cal round so the balistics are similar. The Enfield was probably the best rifle in WWI but the Garand is by far the best WWII rifle issued.


That's a bit far fetched. The German MP-44 (Sturmgewehr) was altogether a far more advanced design, at least as reliable as the Garand and much more capable under most circumstances. Also, do not forget that many GIs preferred the M1 carbine to the Garand despite a much weaker cartridge and short range.

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History has shown the effectiveness of armed citizens against an occupying force many times. The most recent example is still going on today in Iraq. The war may have started out with the US fighting the Iraq army until they surrendered but who are we fighting now? Who is responsible for killing hundreds and thousands of our soldiers in Iraq over the past several years? Not the "organized, effective military" of Iraq but very small groups of armed citizens/insurgents that are conducting very effective guerilla warfare against the military trying to occupy their land. And how effective are these armed citizens? Well right now they have the elected politicians of the most powerful country in the world on the verge of voting to turn tail and run from them.


But think of this - just how much more would the Iraqi insurgents achieve if they actually had good leadership, better training, a proper command structure and a developed strategy? Right now the Iraqi resistance is still fairly chaotic. No comparison at all to organized, wide scale guerrilla war on the scale of Yugoslavian, Greek or French resistance during WWII or the Vietcong.