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    We've heard the "bilge water" stories about the "failure to penetrate" NKA uniforms.

    The "extremely cold winters" and their deleterious, retarding effect on pressure development within the .30 Carbine cartridge along the 38th Parallel. It has been asserted that this contributed to the inability of the .30 Carbine to penetrate the "heavy, quilted North Korean Army uniforms".

    If this was truly the case, how did the, impeded "under pressured" cartridge develop sufficient gases to keep operating the actions of the M1icon/M2 Carbines, and why didn't the War Department temporarily remove the carbines from service and issue only Garands?

    Were they shooting the Carbines at distances greater than 200 yards in the frigid weather, even further reducing their efficacy?

    Was it poor marksmanship, because the carbines ere being pressed into serving outside of their design parameters?

    Well?

    (These sound suspiciously bogus to me)!
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    This has already been discussed in detail!
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    Can we discuss the reliability of M-1 Carbines?????
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