How many WWII Carbines avoided rebuild, and how?

Bring backs... yes, but how else could it have happened. I mean, there had to be a significant amount, look how many "100% No rebuild!" guns are on GB.

Even at that, over $19,000 for a carbine just boggles my mind; but then to some folks

$19,000 is probably not even a night on the town.

I can not tell much for the British but it may happen the way they use to deal with their stock of weapons is part of the answer. For example with the vehicle, they would not keep them that long in service and sell them.

In France you used to encounter quite some original Carbine from the second world war (or any other weapons as it goes): there was the one which were parachuted to the resistance movements and were never surrender (note that is true for about every kind of weapons). Also, as the Free French Forces were mostly equipped by the USA some bring back may have happened. Then you would have had the gifts, repayments or just marketed by American soldiers. In the 60ies my Dad had meet people who had Carbine and 1911 pistol given to them by Americans they had sheltered for some nights: As the money was not much worth for them the guy gave them his weapons. Also he told me many years ago about this American soldier who was trying to sell a 1911 pistol at his school door. I was also told by this guy from Normandy who own a very original Jeep its story: The Jeep crew was killed by the German in an ambush so a peasant buried the guys and hide the car under hay in is barn so you can guess it was the same for the weapons if not reused by resistance.

Also when one of my uncle had an armory, he would recuperate lot of weapons from the war. I remember how, in two consecutive weeks he had in very good nick sets of three US Army regulation weapons: A Carbine, an US M3 grease gun and a Garand.

Those weapons from the world wars, both 1st and 2nd and from every where (I saw at my uncle's the parachutist Arizaka!)do still pop up nowadays but most of the time they ended up trashed as demil.

But having said that I have no clue about the number which could still lye around. What I can say is that when one surface, if not a bring back from the colonial wars (Indochina and Algeria) those Carbine are most of the time untouched and sometime surprisingly in good nick.

My dad brought back, with the exception of the IO stock, a 100 % correct Saginaw S'G' 3549***. Unfortunately I never thought to ask about the ornately carved stock on it that was done in the Philippines  for my dad as recognition for his services. 

Charlie

It happened in lots of different ways. One recent accounting was from back in the day in MI as a government employee went through fishing camps selling Carbines out of a vehicle for reasonably low prices, a soldier who probably got them from the nearby military base he probably worked at.

You hear bring-back cast around at shows just like clip is used instead of "magazine". Where would we say that the Box of Ten Winchesters was brought back from? 'Bring back' is a term used for an item that may have never left the USA nor seen a day of service, is my point. Two freshly created 'bring backs' have just been reported on the Royal Tiger threads as people state they got one with no import marks. Yeah, I'm a skeptic. Did they swap barrels or were they really not stamped? It won't matter in a couple of years because they'll just be bring backs.

Nowhere in this statement do I refute that there are actual bring-backs so nobody start the typical argument against something not said.

I know I'll get flayed for this but the 30 Carbine was the most viable combat rifle from the U.S. in WWII. As that it deserves to be remembered. 

The 30 Carbine rifle and cartridge combination was the genesis of close quarters combat rifles for the U.S.. The Car 15 and M4 are evolutionarily improvements and now the M4 platform with the new Hornady 6MM ARC is the next step. A 108 grain projectile in a 7 to 8 lb package capable of  rapid fire in close quarter combat as well as 800 yard hits. Now that's a concept we all can agree on.

It started with what some call the War Baby! 

It was a sarcastic comment. In answer to the question of how one Carbine remained original, some didn't remain original except they're being represented as original because there are NOS barrel assemblies around to fit on.

I just found a Carbine in my pile with no notes other than who transferred it for me. Color and condition is all matching. Didn't know what I was looking at for a bit until noticing the barrel wasn't even tightened on yet. It's gorgeous but obviously not orig.