Carbines were and are typically used by members of the military in roles that are expected to engage in combat, but where a full-size rifle would be an impediment to the primary duties of that soldier ( vehicle drivers, field commanders and support staff, airbornes, engineers, etc .).

Carbines are also common in law enforcement and among civilian owners where similar size, space and / or power concerns may exist.

Most Civil Guard volunteers are armed with M1 Carbines and personal handguns ( if the member has a civilian gun license ).

Today, Irwin-Pedersen M-1 Carbines are among the rarest versions of the M1 Carbine and as such, I-P Carbines usually command premium prices in collector's circles.

M14 were issued as sniper rifles along with surplus of M1 Carbines given to the Police.

Merritt began her professional career with her band The Carbines playing small clubs in Chapel Hill and Raleigh such as The Cave, Cat's Cradle, and the front porch of the General Store in Bynum, NC.

( the Second Amendment guarantees no right to keep and bear a firearm that does not have " some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia "); United States v. Three Winchester 30-30 Caliber Lever Action Carbines, 504 F. 2d 1288, 1290, n. 5 ( CA7 1974 ); United States v. Johnson, 497 F. 2d 548 ( CA4 1974 ); Cody v. United States, 460 F. 2d 34 ( CA8 ), cert.

Unfortunately, due to faulty management and a host of other difficulties, the company failed to achieve mass production and produced slightly over 3, 500 M1 Carbines.

Ahmad Shah and his group recovered a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and other materials, including three SOPMOD M4 Carbines fitted with M203 40mm grenade launchers, a ruggedized laptop with an intact hard drive containing maps of embassies in Kabul, night vision equipment, and a sniper spotting scope, among other items from the Navy SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team, items which they could then use against American, Coalition, and Government of Afghanistan entities.

Carbines were usually less accurate and less powerful than the longer muskets ( and later rifles ) of the infantry, due to a shorter sight plane and lower velocity of bullets fired from the shortened barrel.

Carbines, like rifles, can be single-shot, repeating-action, semi-automatic or select-fire / fully automatic, generally depending on the time period and intended market.

:* Carbines, rifles and shotguns of designs commonly known as, including any variants or modified versions of them:

* Assault rifles and Carbines

In the GWII, Turtledove describes the CS forces as wielding submachine guns-probably M2 Carbines ( as Thompson submachine guns were mentioned as being in use by U. S. forces multiple times ) and automatic rifles capable of fully automatic fire, which would mean the CSA skipped the M1 Garand and adopted a rifle much like the Browning Automatic Rifle ( BAR ) directly.

Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.

However, in November 2011, leaders of the US Marine Corps announced they will stay with current M4 Carbines and M16A4s and not adopt an IC competition winner.

*. 30 Carbine, used in the M1 / M2 / M3 Carbines, sometimes called the 7. 62x33mm ;

Image: TheMill1. JPG | Built in 1844, The Tallassee Armory building served as a cotton mill until the American Civil War when it was converted into an armory producing " Tallassee Cavalry Carbines "

In the early days of the American Civil War Morgan financed a scheme, known as the " Hall Carbine Affair ", that purchased 5, 000 dangerously defective Hall's Carbines being liquidated by the U. S. Government at a cost of $ 3. 50 each.

However, the U. S. Military had been purchasing Colt Carbines for the past 30 years ( See Colt Commando ).

In 1905, the Model 1905 Cavalry Carbine was introduced to replace the older, and unpopular, 1893 Carbines.

7, 900 Model 1905 Carbines were produced between 1905 and 1911.

This led to the authorization of the creation of 900 Rifles and 100 Carbines, for the purposed of testing the new GP08 ( later redesignated GP 11 ) cartridge.

The 1908 Rifles and Carbines were fitted with Model 1899 / 1900 style 6 round magazines, and improved sights.

* Small Arms Identification Series No 15:. 450 &. 303 Martini Rifles And Carbines ( Ian Skennerton, Arms & Militaria Press ) ISBN 0-949749-44-3.

The M1 and M2 Carbines continued in service during the Korean War.

They are leaving so fast that the president of the West German Employers' Federation issued an appeal this week to factory workers in the West to volunteer for six months' front-line work in factories in West Berlin.

Personal identification cards are issued to all adult males on which tax payments, inoculations, periods of employment, and changes of residence are recorded.

The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.

In South Africa all persons harvesting this animal need permits that are issued on a yearly basis, and no abalone may be harvested using scuba gear.

As widespread inefficiencies in numbering ( such as the assignment of entire blocks of 10000 numbers to every competing carrier in every small village to support local number portability schemes ) have created shortages of available numbers, these prefixes are often " reclaimed " and issued as standard exchanges, moving the handful of numbers in them to one standard test exchange ( usually 958 ).

Plans initially called for all M versions to be upgraded, but currently P's are being issued as required to replace M's lost or removed from the inventory.

These securities, known as ADRs ( American Depositary Receipt ) or GDRs ( Global Depositary Receipt ) depending on where they are issued, are typically considered " foreign " and therefore trade at a lower value when first released.

Licenses for TV and radio broadcasters are issued by the Republican Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting, the chair of which is the minister of information.

Only walks issued by the catcher signaling as described above are recorded as intentional walks ( see below ); walks issued without the catcher signaling – even if the pitches are intentionally thrown outside of the strike zone – are not recorded as intentional.

Since Pope Leo XIII issued the bull Apostolicae Curae in 1896, the Catholic Church has insisted that Anglican orders are invalid because of changes in the Anglican ordination rites of the 16th century and divergence in understanding of the theology of priesthood, episcopacy and Eucharist.

Trustee appointments are governed by the regulatory framework set out in the code of practice on public appointments issued by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

Bokken are currently issued to the Los Angeles Police Mounted Unit for use as batons.

Later courts have limited Erie slightly, to create a few situations where United States federal courts are permitted to create federal common law rules without express statutory authority, for example, where a federal rule of decision is necessary to protect uniquely federal interests, such as foreign affairs, or financial instruments issued by the federal government.

Coins reflect the events of the time in which they are produced, so coins issued during historically important periods are especially interesting to collectors.