Gun show carbines

[DaveHH]

'Corrected' is faked. It is the same thing as stamping new serial numbers on a rifle to make it 'all matching', and is about the same level of honesty. American arms have this issue because people refuse to accept how they were actually used (i.e. you stripped the rifles as sections, threw the parts into a pile and cleaned then threw them back together, not to mention the constant rebuilds/refurbishments) and refuse to accept how they left service. To each their own, but in my opinion it is the destruction of history, not the preservation of it.

I was drafted in 1965, spent six months in the 5th Inf Div in Colorado and then on to Vietnam for a year (66-67). Basic training was at Ft Ord Calif with good Infantry Cadre. I never once heard of anyone or any group of soldiers taking their weapons apart and dumping the parts into a pile and then putting them back together. That may have occurred in some NG unit where a bunch of civilians got dressed up and played Army for 6 weeks every year, but in the real Army I never saw anything like that.