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.

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.

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

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

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

( Troops with Model 89 / 00 Short Rifles and 05 Carbines were re-issued 1893 Carbines ).

* Carbines, with a shorter barrel than a rifle, were less accurate, but easier to handle on horseback.

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 are issued to high-mobility troops such as special-operations soldiers and paratroopers, as well as to mounted, supply, or other non-infantry personnel whose roles do not require full-sized rifles.

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.

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

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.

A. 30 Carbine case necked down to. 223 caliber ( 5. 56 mm ), this cartridge was developed to convert military surplus M1 Carbines into short range varmint guns.

to mass produce M1 Carbines for the U. S. military failed.

After World War II, the United States military started looking for a single automatic rifle to replace the M1 Garand, M1 / M2 Carbines, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, M3 " Grease Gun " and Thompson submachine gun.

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.

Primarily through Pedersen's contacts in the Ordnance Department, the Irwin-Pedersen Arms Company received a contract to manufacture over 100, 000 M1 Carbines to be produced at the rate of 1, 000 per day after the Grand Rapids factory was tooled up and in full production.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

those of 1788 were going to prove decisive, though many of their details are obscure.

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

Gone are the days when, in the nineteenth century, scientists thought that they were close to the attainment of complete knowledge of the physical universe.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

Where there were none fifteen years ago, several scholars currently are edging their way cautiously towards the acceptance of the `` shore occupied by '' position.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

The results were good although they are difficult to compare with hand brushing, particularly when the individual knows how to brush his teeth properly.

The day before Election Day, to which we are entitled as a legal holiday, we were informed to report to our respective polls to work as `` workers of the party ''.