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Caliber: .30 Carbine
Action: Semi-Automatic
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The M1 Carbine is a light weight semi-automatic rifle that became a standard weapon in the U.S. military during WWII all the way until Vietnam. It was a widely popular weapon in WWII because of its light weight its high magazine capacity and because it was semi-automatic.It was also used alot by truck drivers and para-troopers because of its light weight and manuverability. Many of them were produced by many different companies both during and after WWII. It is a widely used rifle by different militaries all over the world still and it is used by police forces and is widely popular in the civillian market too. Its bullet is comparable to the .32 Winchester round. It is not really as powerful as the M1 Garand because its bullet is more of a pistol bullet. There were different models made like the M1A1 Carbine that has a folding stock, or the M2 Carbine that is capable of fully-automatic fire.
Here is a link to a site with some info about the m1 carbine: http://www.surplusrifle.com/m1carbine/index.asp
3 comments:
Thats a fancy gun you got there... I alredy have them all
I like both versions of the M1A1 Carbine and I think that it was a pretty good advantage during WWII.
Yeah, it was kind of an advantage because of its light weight and being semi automatic, except it was considered not powerful enough for longer ranges because by the time the bullet got to the target it was traveling much slower and had bad penetration and not as effective as the 30-06 M1 Garand.
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