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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/01/obama-administration-reverses-course-forbids-sale-antique-m-rifles/?test=latestnews
MO_cows said:That's a shame especially about the carbines. CMP is out of them and they would have "stimulated the economy" for sure. M1 Garand's are still readily available thru CMP but the carbines in such quantity will likely never be seen other than thru this deal. Stupid move on the part of the administration. This isn't the kind of gun favored by criminals but instead by historians, re-enactors, collectors, hunters, competitive shooters and other tax paying law abiding types.
MO_cows said:That's a shame especially about the carbines. CMP is out of them and they would have "stimulated the economy" for sure. M1 Garand's are still readily available thru CMP but the carbines in such quantity will likely never be seen other than thru this deal. Stupid move on the part of the administration. This isn't the kind of gun favored by criminals but instead by historians, re-enactors, collectors, hunters, competitive shooters and other tax paying law abiding types.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbineThe M1 carbine with its reduced-power .30 cartridge was not originally intended to serve as a primary weapon for combat infantrymen, nor was it comparable to more powerful assault rifles developed late in the war. The M1 and later M2 carbines were never designed to be assault rifles,
Reports of the carbine's failure to stop enemy soldiers, sometimes after multiple hits, appeared in individual after-action reports, postwar evaluations, and service histories of both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps.