VIDEO: "Carbine Williams"

The History Guy presents a brief history of David Marshall “Carbine” Williams, the man most people remember as being the inventor of the M-1 Carbine (although it is a bit more complicated than that). 

I think that the M-1 Carbine deserves some attention as being one of the predecessors to the assault rifle. It used a detachable box magazine, fired a cartridge intermediate between the pistol and rifle cartridges available at the time and, while the M-1 carbine was not select fire, the post-WWII iterations (the M-2 and M-3 carbines) were. 

Also notable about the weapon is that the massive volume of M-1 Carbines sold to the public by the government forced a revision of the NFA allowing rifles to have 16-inch barrels instead of the 18 inches previously required.

 VIDEO: "Carbine Williams"
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