Carbine Williams

M1 Carbine: A Whole New Class of Weapon
Ian McCollum, the Forgotten Weapons guy, has a video about the M1 Carbine, a rifle used by the U.S. Army for over 20 years. Do not confuse the M1 Carbine with M1 Rifle, better known as the Garand. They are two different animals. The carbine weighs about half what the rifle does. They were both used extensively during WW2. We produced approximately six million of each.

Carbine Williams Movie Poster

Ian tells us that the design of the automatic loading mechanism came from David Marshall Williams, aka Carbine Williams, who came up with this design while he was in prison. Hey! Wait a minute, I saw that movie! Jimmy tells the warden than he made the barrel of the gun from an old axle, so none of your stupid rules are going to stop me from making my gun, or words to that effect. That's all I remember about it.

It takes Ian awhile to get around to showing you the automatic loading mechanism, but he does, just after the 19 minute mark.