It would be interesting if an arms maker would manufacture M1 Garand rifles in the .276 caliber in which it was first designed, with a 20-round box magazine instead of a clip. It goes without saying that a reverse-engineered product with design modifications would introduce new bugs that would have to be ironed out.
In reference to bayonet lugs, I believe it was the Infantry School and not Ordnance who insisted on that. The Type 3 barrel band for the M1 Carbine with the bayonet lug wasn't produced untl 1945. I have an original Inland carbine from December 1943 that has the Inland "I" on all of its parts. It's in factory-new condition. The main problem with collector-grade guns is that you don't want to shoot them -- I'll don't want to break my carbine's extractor firing crappy Wolf ammo.
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