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Old September 27, 2020, 09:45 AM   #13
dahermit
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I love the M1 Carbine. However, what rankles me is no hold-open device on the 15-round magazines...something that logically would be considered essential on a military weapon.

It seems I posted back in 2015 about the same thing. Reviewing that 2015 thread, I saw that one of the reasons offered for no hold-open on the magazines was that the bolt would batter the follower and render it useless.

Inasmuch as the 30-round Korean era mags had a hold open follower, the idea that the follower could not take the battering and therefore, was not included as a feature of the 15-rounders, makes no sense to me.

Another reason offered was that the M1 Carbine in WWII was not intended to be actually used in combat and therefore did not need a hold-open follower makes no sense to me either considering that the common narrative was that the .30 Carbine was intended to replace the .45 ACP 1911 but did have a hold open system despite the fact that the 1911 was also not cosidered to be a front-line weapon.
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