Surplus M1 Carbine Rifles Are For Sale At The Civilian Marksmanship Program

secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com ^ | 09/30/09 | Sasparilla

[mountainlion]

There is a long wait for the big backlog. They have been going overtime since the election. Good product though.

[mad_as_he$$]

Big 5 sporting goods has M-1’s for $799 on the shelf.

[djf]

I have a Saginaw.

Mfg date Sept, 1943 stamped on the barrel.

Nice little gun.

[The Great RJ]

I’m surprised that Obama didn’t order these guns destroyed rather than put them into the hands of law abiding citizens.

[VOA]

bump

[Joe 6-pack]

Just slapped an Ultimak rail on mine yesterday!!

[squibs]

My father and I both got M1 Garands from cmp ( was called DCM)

[Lurker]

Yea I know it's a dinky little carbine chambered for a pistol cartridge. I know it's obsolete.

I want one anyway.

[mountainlion]

I would sell all of my M1’s for $650.

[Sasparilla]

I bought a can of 30.06 from them. Delivery took 5 months. But, they keep you advised on the progress of your order by email. They don’t forget about you. There has been a big backlog and run on surplus firearms and ammunition at CMP since October, 2008 and the advent of the “Obama Age.”

[70th Division]

I am from Michigan. How cool is that. A gun made in Saginaw.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Yeah, but can they kill zombies?

[djf]

There was a bunch of different manufacturers for them back then. Heck, I think RCA might have even been making them.

[Hot Tabasco]

I have a Saginaw.

Mine's a Standard Products, 1944

[djf]

I’d have way more luck killing them with the carbine than with any of my handguns.

I can barely hit the side of a barn with a pistol, but am pretty spot on with a long gun.

[pfflier]

Not RCA it was NCR.

[Sasparilla]

I.B.M made them during WWII too. What an International Business Machine!

[SampleMan]

.30 is quite a pistol round. That said, the M1 carbine wasn't intended to be a battle rifle. The M1 carbine was to replace the 1911 .45 pistol for non-frontline personnel, officers, and those with other primary weapons, like anti-tank gunners.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Yea I know it's a dinky little carbine chambered for a pistol cartridge. I know it's obsolete."

That dinky little carbine has probably laid to rest more enemies of western civilization than any other single firearm.

Not only was it employed against Germany and Japan in WWII, it saw use against the n. Koreans and their Chinese Allies, and was used well into the Viet Nam conflict.

Above and beyond all that, it was pretty popular with the French in both North Africa and Indochina, and put to good use by the Israelis in many of their early conflicts, and was later employed in the Magal designed for Israeli police special operations (which used plain carbine mags)

Certainly there are more powerful cartridges out there, but the .30 carbine should not be sold short...