Presidents and Their Guns

Following a weekend cruise on his yacht, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came ashore at Aberdeen, Md., on Sept. 30, 1940, to inspect the U.S. Army's 28,000 acre "laboratory" where ordnance ranging from tanks to 16-inch shells and rifle bullets. Here the chief executive gets a close-up of the Army's Garand semi-automatic rifle held by Capt. E.H. Harrison. (AP Photo)