Is the M1 carbine Prohibited now?
- Thread starter stang
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Your gunsmith is wrong. I had mine out last week.
You can go for the cancel move, or kick him off your team approach.... or you could politely inform your gunsmith and let him know that as of right now they are not prohibited but they are on the list of to be prohibited items that the Liberals are foolishly pursuing.
maple_leaf_eh
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The M1 carbine used to be unrestricted and was an average rifle. The bank robbers in Quebec discovered how to saw off the barrels and stocks, and the stop watch drill was invented. They graduated to M2 carbine with conversion kits, just like Patty Hurst and her criminal SLA terrorist buddies. That was the straw that broke the fed's resolve, and they moved legislation to change the description of a restricted to barrel over 18", centrefire, magazine fed semi auto. There was a cottage industry to extend muzzles with hollow tubes and welded flash suppressors. Well! The feds threw a fit and demanded fully rifling for the barrels with an RCMP inspection to prove it. That slowed the pace of unrestricting restricted rifles until someone introduced aftermarket new 18 1/2" barrels. It is a constant dance.
What is a stop watch drill and why would an M2 need a conversion kit?
maple_leaf_eh
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Without trying to teach old tricks to new criminals, the drill was fast and effective.
The get away driver sits outside the bank with the engine running.
The first hoodlum through the bank doors fires a couple shots into the ceiling, announces the hold up, and counts backwards from 30.
The next two thieves vault over the counter and grab as much cash as they can. At various counts, they're supposed to be doing specific things.
When the count reaches five, everyone jumps back over the counter and at zero, the door man is the last out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopwatch_Gang Murphy's brother Pinky just died in Ottawa at age 92.
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maple_leaf_eh
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
The M2 carbine has the go fast sear and the right op rod shapes, but they were stripped out and the guns sold as just any other rifle was. Since full autos were registered firearms during the time of the Stopwatch Gang but not converted autos, they'd buy gun show semi-auto M2 carbines, make or find the conversion parts, chop the barrels, tape the 30-rd banana mags together, and be the baddest bastages on the hold up circuit.
The stop watch question was already answered. It seemed like you were talking about the rifle so some slight confusion there. No need for a neutered M2 if you are going to make the FA parts yourself, it's mostly a matter of cutting out a part of the stock afterward for the selector. You can buy a detailed book online for about $10 of you don't find a digital copy and just steal it.
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Man, reading this makes me want to pull out the old DVD of "Heat" and watch that bank robbery scene...
