M-1 CARBINE Questions

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Good day all,

I've acquired an M-1 Carbine in a lot of firearms that I picked up from a friend that passed away. He always said it was his rifle in the war, he was originally from the states. I'm just trying to figure out what to do with it as I don't know anything about these.

Markings

SAGINAW SG
US CARBINE
30 CAL M.I.
serial # 3351***

It's in immaculate shape, plus it came with a whole bag of spare parts (extra bolt, springs and whatnot), as well as a bunch of mags.
It functions beautifully.

Hoping someone on here that's familiar with these can tell me what I got.

Thanks
Sheldon
 
The M1 Carbines were one of the first magazine fed centrefire rifles to go onto the Restricted list. For good reason at the time too. The M1 and M2 Carbines were favourites of the Montreal armed bank robbery gangs and by restricting them, the easy supply dried up (supposedly).

Check to see if the magazines are been limited to 5-shots. Otherwise, take the bag to your nearest gunsmith to have him restrict the capacity. No gunsmith will rat you out for doing the honest thing. You can say the previous owner was a bit of a wildcat and you want to be fully compliant with the Criminal Code.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
The M1 Carbines were one of the first magazine fed centrefire rifles to go onto the Restricted list. For good reason at the time too.
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The M1 carbine technically is not (and never has been) on the "restricted list". Original versions are restricted due to barrel length, not by design. Of course, there is strong suspicion the government had the little carbine in mind when they chose the 18.5" barrel length as the cutoff.
 
Thanks for the input guys. Yes it's registered and on the up and up. Just not sure what to do with it. Not really my style, if I cant use it for hunting it's not much use to me. You'll probably see it on the EE soon
 
lerch641 said:
There's some info here; http://fulton-armory.com/faqs/M1C-FAQs/M1Carbine.htm

Right at the top you'll see that a Saginaw made M1 Carbine made up a small number of the overall production. That low number yields to its value for collectors.
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Any idea what at item like that would be worth? Searching this forum I am seeing $800 or so in Canada, but in the US, the Saginaw production M1s seem to command $1500 to $2500 depending on condition.
 
Collectors market. I know the Inland rifles are more common and go for $700-900 depending on condition and barrel, so a Saginaw rifle might fetch upwards of $1500 if you find the right buyer.
 
Keep in mind that there were two Saginaw factories/armories. If it is marked S.G. it was built in the plant at Saginaw, Michigan. If it is marked S'G' it is from the Grand Rapids plant, where they took over the Irwin Pedersen contract.
Jon
 
I second not rebarreling it. A new, non-restricted M1 by Auto Ordnance can be had for under $900, much less than you would get for your wartime Saginaw M1.

maple_leaf_eh said:
For good reason at the time too. The M1 and M2 Carbines were favourites of the Montreal armed bank robbery gangs and by restricting them, the easy supply dried up (supposedly).
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How so? Why should I or anyone else be punished for criminal misuse?
 
Pictures would help - it'll let us know what era it was produced and if the gun went through the Korean era mixmaster refurb. Additionally, spares are getting harder to find, and might be worth more than you think.
 
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maple_leaf_eh said:
The M1 Carbines were one of the first magazine fed centrefire rifles to go onto the Restricted list. For good reason at the time too. The M1 and M2 Carbines were favourites of the Montreal armed bank robbery gangs and by restricting them, the easy supply dried up (supposedly).

Check to see if the magazines are been limited to 5-shots. Otherwise, take the bag to your nearest gunsmith to have him restrict the capacity. No gunsmith will rat you out for doing the honest thing. You can say the previous owner was a bit of a wildcat and you want to be fully compliant with the Criminal Code.
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Why should my choice of firearms be limited by what a criminal might do? If one gun is taken out of circulation, another takes its place. Restricting handguns was pure genius wasn't it? Rather than the bad guy being armed with a gun that fires under powered ammunition, and is difficult to shoot well, instead he's armed a 12 ga or a .308, that made the world a better place didn't it! There never has been, and never will be, a good reason to limit the civilian ownership of firearms.
 
There are no good reasons to decide that any gun is any different from any other gun. Any gun can kill, any gun can be misused - killing people and misusing tools is a people problem, not a tool problem. You can't fix the problem by changing to a different tool, and it's counter productive to suggest the the fault lies with the tool.
 
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