As my memory serves me, I once read in one of the Carcano books, the "2" signified a rifle or carbine produced and issued by fascist Italianicon Social Republic ("RSI") in northern Italy 1943-1945. They were a puppet state of Nazi Germanyicon and were occupied by same for the duration of the war. Several years ago I had a Carcano M/38 folding bayonet Carbine