M2 Carbine

[enefgee]

You see, if there was any justice in this world, you'd simply be able to sell that to me, and I'd have my unobtainium rifle (like a holy grail, but some dumbass bureaucrat says no). In that perfect world, I'd be able to take it to the range with me and have fun for as long as my ammo lasted (yeah, not so long, but it would be fun) - then I could take it home, clean it, and go back to my normal life. Stupid Laws.

PS - too bad you can't just throw a Criterion barrel on that and de-register it.

 

[enefgee]

Nice M2!! My father carried one during the 60's in Laos. Later also as a resistance fighter when Pathet Lao took over during the later 70's. Never complained about reliability. Always praised its pointability. Our people were issued M1 garands and 1903's at first but being average of 5ft and 90 lbs for our people, he and our people welcomed the carbines and M16s. M1/M2 carbines are still being used by our people in the jungles of Laos fighting for their freedom. My father always told me of many that were stashed away and he himself stashed his own M16 before hitting the refugee camps in northern Thailand.

Pictures off the net but this is our people, still in the jungles of Laos armed with M1/M2's and various others.

Your people are true heroes, the rest of us could learn a lot about freedom, it's cost and it's responsibility from them. Thank your father for me, if you can, for being an example of the best in human nature and dignity.

 

[jakester]

M1 and M2 carbines have been subject to as many rebuild programs as the M1 rifles, maybe more. It would be rare to find an as originally issued example today. I had both early and late M2's (semi only) that were deregistered by the old Hard Silver Soldered and pinned on barrel extension, which was a generally accepted method of deregistering a slightly short barreled Converted Auto until c-68 ***t canned that. Ganderites example has a pot belly stock. Some had a more pronounced belly than others, some were sanded during rebuilds and didn't show much curve anymore. My early Inland had the early stock, which was identical to that of the M1's (except for the selector cutout) and quite noticeabley flat on the bottom compared to my later example.
My early M2 was also an overstamp (ie. an M1 receiver overstamped with a "2".

 

[can14]

Sherwood sold m2 carbine birch wood stock sets from the 1960's rebuilding program in the 1970's. They also had the 3006 m1 birch wood. Numrich also had the 3006 m1 birch wood from the destroyed guns.
Maranda sold Plainfield m2's "old stock" new in the box in 1978 along with Montreal Police Reising Model 50's. They dumped them to get them off of the books. They came with collapsing stocks.