Are they smoking crack?

[imarangemaster]

Auto Ordnance is releasing their WW2 clone in an M1A1 version. I suppose that is good because some re-enactors will buy them to drill out and put a screw in the barrel blank plug, instead of butchering an original. The problem is the MSRP is almost $1,000! They don't even used forgings in their carbines. Maybe people are de-sensitized by the post-election hysteria costs of black rifles, etc.

But seriously, I BRIEFLY had an Auto Ordnance WW2 model, back when they were just $550 and the CMPs had started to dry up. Originals were much higher on GB than they are now. Fit and finish was aweful. I went through hell just trying to get a stock set that even fit from AO. It would not even reliably hand cycle the rounds from a GI 15 rounder.

Here is a link o a Guns and Ammo article. I had seen it in American Rifleman, but I don't think it listed a MSRP.

Auto-Ordnance Model 150 M1A1 Carbine

I gues the good side is that it will spare some originals for us.

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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

it did, $965

[imarangemaster]

For that much, I'd get an M1A!

[unclejake]

$965...Yikes!!

[Curt]

Remember when it was on the cover of American Rifleman with the rer sight on backwards.