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DCM Carbine sold after the War.

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    Posted: Sep 16 2018 at 7:41pm
In a discussion it was stated that DCM at one time sold off as many as 200k un-issued Carbines. Can anyone say whether this was true or were they "used"?
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If I recall rightly they were sold through the NRA to members for about $25 delivered, at least mine was. Ah, the good old days. I just went down to the train station and picked up the box containing the carbine.
  They were listed as "unserviceable" whatever that meant, and packed in cosmoline that took me a week of soaking in lacquer thinner to clean the metal parts. Even then I had to push a cleaning rod down the bore to clean out the rock hard cosmoline that was in it.
  All that happened in the early 60s, about 1963 if I recall. As you can imagine they were gone in a flash.
  They all came with papers in the box and today if you have one with the papers I bet they're worth a bunch of money even if they are mixmasters.
  Lance Mearing
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Originally posted by meckanic meckanic wrote:

In a discussion it was stated that DCM at one time sold off as many as 200k un-issued Carbines. Can anyone say whether this was true or were they "used"?


Your question is if there were unissued Carbines released in the DCM sale of Carbines?
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