Gun show carbines

[Eaglelord17]

Getting back to the OP.
I kinda look at it this way, from what I have read and looked up on the internet on carbines over the years, put them in this order:
#1. This would be a WW-2 configured carbine that has never been touched or missed with since WW-2, which there are prob. about 10 total, and I doubt that.
#2. One that has been corrected, with org. WW-2 parts back to it's org. configuration. and that's about 99% of so-called org. WW-2 carbines out there.
#3. One that has all the post war mod's.
They are all still WW-2 carbines, and putting one back to it's org. WW-2 configuration is not faking one, it's just correcting it back to the way it was made for WW-2 .
And if you have family members or friends that used them in Korea or Vietnam, then the post war carbines with all there mod's are the way to go, I like all of them,.
But, for some one to say that if you change the configuration from the way the Military last used them, that it is now a fake carbine, is just BS...IMHO.
I really like all the comments, and I agree there are a lot of experts here, and I have learned a lot over the years, and all of the above is just one man's opinion, and I am still trying to learn.
It is the little gun that help win WW-2.

I think there were more left in original configuration than 1%, just your odds of seeing them in the USA are much lower. Most the ones left intact would likely have been given away as war surplus/aid to foreign countries and thereby not really allowed back into country for the most part. For example I have seen two so far in my life, which were not 'corrected' or faked. One I suspect was from the Philippines, it was in really rough shape, hard to fake that type of wear over everything. The other I strongly suspect wasn't faked because my buddy bought it for way less than market value off someone who just had a M1 Carbine, and he didn't know what he had bought until I took a quick look at it.

I get that you don't like the idea your faking it, a lot of Americans seem to think that way, but doesn't change what your doing. If you are a collector it is about preserving history not altering it. Changing it because it suits your idea of history is altering it, not preserving it. I can't just take a Isreali K98k and take the 7.62 markings off it, rebarrel it to 8mm Mauser and call it a WWII K98k, even though your just 'changing the configuration back to WWII standard' and that's how it originally would have been. Your not correcting something if it isn't broken.