Thanks for that reminder. My old club had a number of carbines for small juniors and I do recall the ammo having nickel plated primers now that you've jogged my memory. I'd never heard of the .45 being issued that way, though I know there was a lot of experimentation between the wars with different primer compositions and plating seems like a logical way to distinguish a particular kind.
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