Company Imports Trove of M1 Carbines from Ethiopia to Sell in US

[Ex313]

Royal Tiger Imports has announced that they have located a trove of M1 Carbines in Ethiopia. The M1 Carbine was manufactured by a number of manufacturers during WWII and Royal Tiger has obtained models from every one of them except Irwin-Pederson and Quality Hardware Manufacturing Corp.

The weapons were part of the stockpile the Ethiopian government obtained from various governments around the world.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/m1-carbine.html

 

[clockerman]

Now that's a stack of rifles. I wonder how many survived the storage.

 

[cjnowell72]

Only 16 left

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

Sadly the importer is charging quite a bit. I realize it's sort of a "what the market may bear" type thing but you KNOW those guys picked those up for a few pennies per unit and selling them for a grand. I'd have loved to have one, I'd consider it like a "barn find" almost.

 

[jeep78]

They have been available for a while. The good stuff is a bit picked over.