My modest family - The Carbine Collector's Club

Nice. Thanks for sharing the "family" photo.

Very nice. I thought .30 Carbine was a restricted caliber in France?

Given the Euro to USD conversion that seems more or less equivalent.

Nice group, you have. Thanks for posting.

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French addict wrote:

DonFlynn wrote:

Very nice. I thought .30 Carbine was a restricted caliber in France?

For a long time, restrictions used to be based on calibers (not only) for long guns, but the law has changed. .30 carbine is no more restricted as long as the carbine is not semi-auto.

So you had to convert all of those to 1 shot? That sucks

French addict wrote:

The reloading is manual now and the detachable mags are supposed to be limited to 10 shots (but you can use a regular 15 shots mags if you want... ok this is not really legal Big smile

). Nonetheless, I have two of them in original condition with the corresponding 5 years licence, this is enough to have fun at the range, and if I want I can still shoot the others as the manual reloading is very easy, and it spares ammo Wink

Sounds like you have to have a permit for semi auto weapons similar to Americans owning full auto weapons, with a renewal period.

At least you can have 2 of them as issued.

Your family is wonderful, and not very modest!

I applaud you for acquiring these in a restrictive country, and showing them here.

Hello Painter,

Unfortunately, I have no background history for my M1. All I know is that:

-The Rock Ola and the Headstamped Inland (with the repro A1 stock) come from military stocks imported by professional armourers in France (2 differents: one from Lyon and one from the south East of France). The Rock Ola comes from Austria and the Inland from Italy.

- 2 Inland (these with the pouches on the stock) come from a collector who found them out of the professional circuit in France. He told me that one is from an old man who passed away, and was probably a french army gun that was "lost" early in the 50's. No info about the second one.

- the IBM comes from a fellow collector who got it from another old man. No more info.

- the last Inland (my earliest s/n 250.000) comes from a online sale (Naturabuy). It looks as if it has spent a verry long time in an french attic Big smile

No doubt that it was very little refurbished (swivel changed, and I changed the recoil plate for a Inland one), but no info either. According to US collectors standards, it is not nice enough, but I love its patina.

I bought a few spares from Nenel3 on Naturabuy (a french auction site for guns). Usually he has many things and is very reactive.... but communication is, let's say, rugged LOL

. He only sells spares, no guns. SIAM is his company site. Diou, Dompierre and Beaulon are close, I guess that he just changes the post offices where he sents his parcels.

Just for the fun of it.... here are two pics that one of my favorite sellers sent me. This is the last shipment he received in its cleaning phase before being offered on the market.

Sure would love to dig through your "Favorite Seller's" carbines, imagine there are a few gems in there even though they have been upgraded.

Wayne
USMC Retired
NRA Life Member

No, never. They are extremely scarce (only 500 made).

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