M2 Carbine

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I have listed mine for sale on 12(X). Here are some pictures of a rifle you don't see everyday.

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It is probably one of the most powerful submachine guns out there. I found it very accurate in single shot mode, but quite the spray gun in full auto. My PPSH41 and Thompson are much more accurate in full auto.

I don't know much about how these were used or how they performed in the field. This one has been perfectly reliable.
 
Claven2 said:
Cool gun that unfortunately is worth less with each passing day thanks to our stupid laws.
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It's sad but true. These types of guns will be worth much more as DEWATS.

The problem is that the owners of CA and FA will sell them below market value of a DEWAT and places like Collectors Source buy them to weld them up to sell for more money.

This is a profitable idea for firearms business owners but personally I'd rather see the money go to collectors.

This is sort of a complicated subject I think. Nobody wants to weld up a full auto, but if you don't somebody else will and it will be them making the profit.

-Steve
 
They were a good performer in Viet Nam. Light and easy to handle......one cud carry alot of ammo. I normally wud carry four pouches of 4 30 rds mags plus two bandoliers........if it was a long patrol, wud take an extra couple of bandoliers in my pack.................never had a problem with any of the M2s................far better then the M16.
 
Ganderite said:
I read the book when it came out, but don't recall a M2. Did someone have one?
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IIRC someone who's uncle was in Korea and had dissembled it, brought it home hiding it. In the book the main charaters were travelling in a van, get stopped by a road block of local hooligans one with a Thompson. The M-2 shooter is in the back and is worried about firing through the windshield and deflecting on the highest threat,.. the TommyGunner.

Remember when the boy gets the .22 from his Uncle. He tells him this,......"never point a rifle at a man unless you intend to shoot him,..never shoot unless you intend to kill"...........
 
don't know much about how these were used or how they performed in the field. This one has been perfectly reliable.
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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.

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Pictures off the net but this is our people, still in the jungles of Laos armed with M1/M2's and various others.
 
Nice m2. Plainfield made many m2's for Vietnam also. That's why there are registered Plainfield m2's from the 60's and 70's. The police also bought them at that time. The Saigon Police contracted Plainfield to supply m2's in the 1970's. I found them to be a nice gun to shoot when the ammo was military and federal/border police surplus.
 
I remember SIR selling both M1 and M2 Carbines out of their old downtown location in Winnipeg in 1965. They were all in excellent, as new condition for $70 as I recall. The M2s had the selector and disconnector removed, but were otherwise stock.
 
can14 said:
Nice m2. Plainfield made many m2's for Vietnam also. That's why there are registered Plainfield m2's from the 60's and 70's. The police also bought them at that time. The Saigon Police contracted Plainfield to supply m2's in the 1970's. I found them to be a nice gun to shoot when the ammo was military and federal/border police surplus.
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Umm… source? AFAIK, Plainfield NEVER supplied any carbine variant to US forces in Vietnam or elsewhere. They DID sell a lot of M2's to various police forces all over the world, but I doubt the Saigon Police was one of them. The Saigon Police were propped up by the US ARMY and could have gotten GI M2's for free. You sure you don;t mean the Singapore Police?

Of all the 60's/70's era commercial carbines, the early Plainfields were perhaps the best. The receivers are cast and not as nicely machined as GI ones, but they work well and are really pretty good in my experience. I actually watched a local gunsmith scrap a Plainfield M2 for parts last month. The 12(x) owner (rightly) figured the GI parts it was built from were worth more than a deactivated commercial M2.
 
purple said:
I remember SIR selling both M1 and M2 Carbines out of their old downtown location in Winnipeg in 1965. They were all in excellent, as new condition for $70 as I recall. The M2s had the selector and disconnector removed, but were otherwise stock.
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Back when the RCMP started enforcing the "M2" with the parts removed as being a converted auto, the M1 carbine was just then being restricted by the 1985 Criminal Code (by virtue of bbl length). A good many M2's had the "2" carefully filed off or peened over and a "1" stamped in the same place. lol.
 
Claven2 said:
Back when the RCMP started enforcing the "M2" with the parts removed as being a converted auto, the M1 carbine was just then being restricted by the 1985 Criminal Code (by virtue of bbl length). A good many M2's had the "2" carefully filed off or peened over and a "1" stamped in the same place. lol.
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Hmmmm. A bit late for that trick for this one, I guess.
 
Ganderite said:
Hmmmm. A bit late for that trick for this one, I guess.
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Too bad really, if you remove the lever and transfer bar, it's just another M1 carbine with a slot in the trigger guard for the selector spring and a late-production interchangeable hammer, slide and sear. Lots of non-auto Inland M1's were built with the same parts and M2 stocks right from the factory.
 
Claven2 said:
Too bad really, if you remove the lever and transfer bar, it's just another M1 carbine with a slot in the trigger guard for the selector spring and a late-production interchangeable hammer, slide and sear. Lots of non-auto Inland M1's were built with the same parts and M2 stocks right from the factory.
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lots of late production m1 carbines were re-stamped m2 when the m1 was cancelled in 45 and then again for korea and Vietnam I think its a non pot belly stock he has hard to tell in the pic that serial # it SHOULD have a non potbelly stock (type 4)
 
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