Because of this the few sniper rifles that remained in the various arsenals were old M1C’s and M1D’s as well as a few of the sniper versions of the M1903 rifles.
At this particular point in time the US Military had fallen back into the cycle of disbanding official snipers among its combat forces as well as sniper training programs. In the late 1950’s the United States military adopted the M14 battle rifle and M60 machine gun as standard combat arms incorporating the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge which was the newly adopted NATO round.
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