offer new versions of the original “Light Rifle” in a host of variations for both collectors and shooters.Ħ. The good news is that Auto-Ordnance and the new Inland Mfg. There is a large quantity of surplus carbines warehoused in South Korea, but there has been no success in getting them to our shores. In 1963, about 240,000 M1 Carbines were decommissioned and sold (without magazines) to NRA members for a $20 each ($17.50 plus $2.50 S&H). The last big import wave of M1 Carbines came in from Blue Sky and Arlington Ordnance decades ago. It even came with a nifty web belt holster called a “jump scabbard.” Okay, there is the Reising 55, too, but that is a story for another day. No one doubts it is better than a pistol at any but the shortest of ranges, and, unlike Marines at “Frozen Chosin,” you can use modern defensive ammo. Remember, the M1 Carbine was designed to replace the M1911A1 in the hands of support troops, machine gunners, etc., whoever did not need a full-size rifle. The M1 Carbine as a round is ballistically effective. Here are some things you may or may not have known about the gun that started out as the U.S. But carbines go much further than their use by the “Greatest Generation” during World War II.
Gil Horman here and watch a video of it being fired at SHOT Show 2015). The guns look great and capture the nostalgia and function of the originals made from 1942 to 1945 ( read an earlier review by B. As this is written, my cheek is gleefully stained with linseed oil (either that or I have jaundice) from test-firing the M1 Carbine and M1A1 Paratrooper Carbines as made today by Inland Manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio. 30, M1” was the most produced American infantry arm of World War II.
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