page_title: Weapons of the Lebanese Civil War
section_title: Semi-automatic rifles
hierarchical_section_title: Weapons of the Lebanese Civil War / Weapons and equipment / Semi-automatic rifles
context_page_description: The Lebanese Civil War was a multi-sided military conflict that pitted a variety of local irregular militias, both Muslim and Christian, against each other between 1975 and 1990.
  A wide variety of weapons were used by the different armies and factions operating in the Lebanese Civil War. Combatants included:
  the leftist-Muslim militias of the Lebanese National Movement coalition;
  the rightist-Christian militias of the Lebanese Front coalition;
  the Muslim Lebanese Arab Army, dissident faction of the Lebanese Army;
  the Christian Army of Free Lebanon, dissident faction of the Lebanese Army;
  the Christian Kataeb Regulatory Forces militia;
  the Christian Lebanese Forces militia, successor of the Lebanese Front;
  the Christian Lebanese Forces – Executive Command militia, dissident faction of the LF;
  the Christian Al-Tanzim militia;
  the Christian Guardians of the Cedars militia;
  the Christian Tigers Militia militia;
  the Christian Zgharta Liberation Army militia;
  the Shia Muslim Amal Movement militia;
  the Shia Muslim Hezbollah guerrilla group;
  the Sunni Muslim Islamic Unification Movement militia;
  the Sunni Muslim Independent Nasserite Movement's Al-Mourabitoun militia;
context_section_description: MAS-49 and MAS-49/56 rifles
  M1 Garand (or its Italian-produced copy, the Beretta Model 1952)
  SKS
  vz. 52 rifle
  M14 rifle
  Beretta BM 59 (Italian-produced semi-automatic rifle similar in design to the M14)
caption: M1 Garand rifle (Beretta Model 1952)
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