[The Last Confederate]

Was shopping at a gunstore today and I found an interesting firearm. IT was an IAI M1 Carbine with a mounted Miltech Red Dot scope on it for a total price of $360. Now I am not familar with M1s or Red Dots, was this a good price for the gun? What is the usual retail value of this weapon and the scope? Thank you.

[El Rojo]

I thought those IAI Carbines started over $400. That and a red dot for $360? Sounds like a winner to me. One thing, how is the red dot mounted? Is it on a scope mount that takes the rear sights place or is it on a forearm rail?

[M2 Carbine]

Doesn't sound bad if they were in fairly good condition.

The last IAI I saw at a gun show a couple years ago was $475 new.

I think the new Kahrs are going for about $500.

[VG]

Some IAI carbine owners are happy - as you can see from your thread on battlerifles.com - but it's fair to say they often need some work to function reliably. They seem to be a little more accurate than most USGI Carbines.

$360 for any carbine, even an IAI, is pretty cheap.

Never used that sight but if it's a holographic sight, most find them easy to use.

Resolved , That negro slavery, as it exists in fifteen states of this Union, composes an important portion of their domestic institutions, inherited from their ancestors, and existing at the adoption of the Constitution, by which it is recognized as constituting an important element in the apportionment of power among the states, and that no change of opinion or feeling on the part of the non_slaveholding states of the Union, in relation to this institution, can justify them, or their citizens, in open or covert attacks thereon, with a view to its overthrow; and that all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other given by the states respectively on entering into the constitutional compact which formed the Union, and are a manifest breach of faith, and a violation of the most solemn obligations.
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Senator Jefferson Davis, May 7, 1860

"The information about the Rebs' rights is interesting, but unfortunately, they did not fight for them, but for the privilege of denying others their rights. Let us not forget that not only they wanted to keep the slaves they had, but also to impose slavery on new territories, thus bringing slavery where there was none before, and that they continued to import slaves through the slave trade. That is, kidnapping human beings and forcing them into labor for their profit.

At the height of the Civil War, while some Southern apologists were saying that the conflict was in defense of 'states rights', nearly one third of the Confederate Army was deployed not to win battles, but to insure that the border states did not defect to the Union.

[nhhillbilly]

Sounds like a good price. My wife's M1 Carbine has an aimpoint on it. Fast accurate set up.