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The official and true name of the weapon is "Type 4 Rifle". Please change it. Source - Japanese Wiki Article.Fukoku Kyohei (talk)02:14, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not so sure, but a few sources have led me to believe thar Japan had developped both a Type4 rifle, based off thePedersen rifle (which were acquired by Japan in few numbers in the 1930s), and a Type5, the modified copy of theM1 Garand.
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Naturally, this could be a bunch of balogna, and I do have many doubts, so if we could clarify this, it'd be nice.SSDGFCTCT9 (talk)17:42, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There could have been both at the same time, or two different types of the same rifle.— Precedingunsigned comment added byAnt2242 (talk •contribs)05:14, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Is it possible there were multiple rifles competing for the designation?Yolo McSwagginz93 (talk)19:30, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Adding of the gun history.