My first Carbine, Inland.

Man, that's a nice one! Have read about them on Jim's site, but this is a first sighting in the internet wild so to speak. Congrats!

If you need a barrister, I am not licensed in Canada, but can refer you to competent counsel for the "stealing' of this fine rifle.   hehe  

Nice ordnance bomb on bottom of TH under the HPK number.

I'll give you $630 for it . You can tell the Misses you sold it for a profit and your out of the dog house!

That's a good woman! Keep her happy!

The AR 7 is a Henry. The Charter Arms units were often problematic . Henry units come with an extra mag. I did see a grey-barrelled AR at a show a while back that was Charter. Looked very old but not the original Armalite though. The Israelies made a copy also. James Bond would be proud!

The value in the USA would be impacted by the presence of the 1968 Gun Control Act's required importer's mark.

The stigma carried by the importer markings partly traces back to those brought back from Korea by Blue Sky Imports that they stamped the mark so deep in the barrel it pushed into the bore and ruined the barrel.

The other part of the stigma is the importer's mark is usually associated with carbines used by nations who didn't maintain their carbines. As with many, but not all, of those brought in by Blue Sky imports.

I think this is kinda funny in a way as those turned into the U.S. Army by those same third world nations that didn't maintain them, that the army turned over to CMP for sales, have a slightly higher value than carbines absent the import mark. The U.S. Army doesn't "import" U.S. manufactured weapons. They bring them home. In reality so do the importers but the importers are subject to the laws of the Dept of State and Dept of Justice. The army, being under the Dept of Defense, obviously isn't subject to the same laws.

Back to value. If you base the value on what the majority of Americans would pay had it come home prior to 1968 and was absent an import mark those HKP parts would devalue it as the majority would remove them and replace them with parts absent the HKP markings.

But ... if you value it on what some us in the minority would pay out of our interest in where it served, you'd get more than what the majority would pay.

New2Brass is at an offer of $900. I'm kind of an odd duck with the interests I have. Buying it now would end the search that's been going on almost 10 years. New2Brass is wealthier than I am but he'd have to pay over $1200-$1300 to bump me out of the game. Maybe a bit more if you took a credit card.

Jim