[Lurker]

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

I want one anyway.

[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...

[EEDUDE]

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

I want one anyway.”

I hope you reload cause that little carbine will eat you out of house and home :-)

But they are fun!

[DMZFrank]

It may be underpowered for a rifle, but ballistically it is near identical to a .357 Magnum, but it is inherently a WHOLE lot more accurate. Just don’t use FMJ rounds.