Photo from the web site dealing with the markings you referred to.
M1 Carbines in Austria: Lower Austria
Austrian marking.
(Lower Austria.) IGKNO 2502
Landes Gendarmerie Kommando NiederOsterreich
A Bavarian marking.
Bottom of trigger guard- WB-LP-2265
(Württemberg Landes Polizei.- The Wuerttemberg inventory number is 2265)
The markings on the trigger guard are from the Wuerttemberg Landes Polizei. Wuerttemberg's version of Bavaria's Rural Police.
This was likely done after the carbine was turned over to Bavaria by Wuerttemberg.
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