“but the M1-Carbine is just to damn expensive today due to limited supply. I would love to have a couple of them.”
I had a paratrooper folding stock model years ago when they weren’t all that special. Traded it. Yeah, I should be flogged.
In the 60’s, I bought a $20 M-1 Carbine from CMP. It came to me in the mail, and was brand new. The stock hadn’t even been finished. I too, alas, traded it in on something else and ever since have been self-flagellating.