WW2 M1A1 Paratrooper

Hello everybody.  I was recently gifted this M1A1.  The guy that gave it to me said his grandfather had it in WW2 in Japan.  I don't have a personal connection to it and I'm not a collector but I've had some difficulty in getting anybody to validate the authenticity of this gun.  I believe from everything I've found that it's legitimate but I've been told that the type 3 barrel band means its a put together and because it doesn't have the circle p it's not worth anything.  If this is the case then I'll accept it and give the rifle to my friend that was airborne but I have no reason to doubt the story of the guy that gave it to me and haven't found anything on this rifle that makes me think it's fake. Thanks in advance for any advice.  Trying to get some other pictures to load but it keeps saying something about the security after I resized them.  I'll work on it some more later. The barrel is also stamped 11-44.

type 3 band does not mean put together. the type 3 band/bayo lug showed up in the 6.2 million range for Inland

Is the band marked KI, AI or something else?

The question is if your serial range is consistent with M1a1 stocks

what marking is on your bayo that makes you think reproduction?

Was it easier to upload pics this second time? 

A FYI, when adding pics and text, hit enter twice in between them. This separates the text and pictures so the text does not wrap around the pictures 

New2brass wrote: type 3 band does not mean put together. the type 3 band/bayo lug showed up in the 6.2 million range for Inland Is the band marked KI, AI or something else? The question is if your serial range is consistent with M1a1 stocks what marking is on your bayo that makes you think reproduction? Was it easier to upload pics this second time?  A FYI, when adding pics and text, hit enter twice in between them. This separates the text and pictures so the text does not wrap around the pictures

How would I go about verifying whether the serial range is consistent with M1a1 stocks?

That page is actually what got me to start thinking it was real and how I found the forum. Serial falls within Inland’s second block according to that.