No, not a rebuilt or refurbished carbine, a newly made carbine manufactured exactly to the original specs right down to the markings. Enough so that manufacturing brand new carbines has become economically viable, given the market demand: we can now buy a brand-new M1 carbine for about the average cost of a used one. In 1964, for example, the government sold nearly a quarter million milsurp M1 carbines to NRA members for $20 each, about $152 in 2015 dollars. Selling for an average of $990 now, the carbine’s post-WWII milsurp price actually dropped dramatically at first. The cost to manufacture an M1 carbine in 1945 was about $45 those 1945 dollars equate to $594 in 2015. Whether that is still “inexpensive” is up to the individual shooter’s wallet. Today-thanks in large part to the skyrocketing popularity of the carbine-a quick online check of non-collector milsurp M1 carbine prices varies from $630 to $1350. When CMP introduced the “as-issued” games a little over a decade ago, a military surplus Mauser or Mosin-Nagant could be had for about $100 and an M1 carbine in NRA Very Good condition fetched, if memory serves, about $400.
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