m2 carbine
i have an m2 carbine but it has a short barre,do you think it is original
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Define "short barrel". Dimensions of an M2 are the same as an M1. 0 -
Pictures would be helpful also. I was going to ask if you had it registered but I see you live in Italy, so you may not have the same rules we have to live with in the USA.
How to post pictures...http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2592940 -
quote:Originally posted by baldo
i have an m2 carbine but it has a short barre,do you think it is original
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I have seen a number of M1 carbine short barrels. All are demilled defective barrels that someone has "restored".
Neal
EDIT: Forgot to say, all of the "restored" barrels had a strange, long, flash hider added to the front.0 -
All US production carbines: M1, M1A1, M2, T3 and M3 had 18" barrels. For a short time in the early 1960s when carbines were being released from the DCM for around thirty bucks there was a small cottage industry fighting surplus carbines with 12 inch barrels as a sort of "explorer rifle". Adding an M1A1 folding stock made for a very compact package. Most of the 12" carbines I've seen were re chambered for the 5.7mm Johnson Spitfire cartridge, which was a .30 carbine round necked down to .22 caliber and firing a 40 or 50 gr bullet at modest velocity (below 3000 fps). Naturally 12 inch barreled carbines were subject to the National Firearms Act as short barreled rifles but in the case of a registered M2 machine gun you can have any barrel length that you wish. 0 -
It's not original having a shorter barrel.
You may have trouble on automatic fire with the shorter barrel.
In the Army, I had an M2 recaptured, that was shortened to pistol size. that I had to open the gas port and lengthen the piston stroke to get reliable automatic fire.0
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