ALL three came back with mechanical issues. A gunshop I worked part time at in 2007/2008 sold 3 auto ordnance while I worked there. I had one that I got new, would not feed 1/4 rounds from USGI 15s, and took three tries to get a stock from customer service that even fit. The auto ordnance junk is also personal experience. If nothing, the prices of USGI carbines is up a little since CMP ran out. Look at the price of a used Iver Johnson, Universal, or Alpine. I am judging this by the number of commercial carbines I have seen in the last 40 years (almost 30 of which I was an FFL specializing in martial firearms and police sales, and a police and military armorer) with broken slides, a couple receivers, cracked trigger guard lugs,and other issues, compared to none on USGI carbines. Does this have any basis in fact? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the post-wartime experiments by Ordnance on cast carbine parts demonstrated no significant metallurgical deficiences from the forged counterparts, those requiring extensive machining, and so, being cheaper to produce, were actually adopted for USGI?
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