As the US had no intention of either remaining as an occupation force in Germany any longer than necessary, or becoming involved in the day-to-day government of the community, local police forces were established to assume standard policing duties ranging from control of traffic to criminal investigation and forestry protection. One of the most extensive of these police forces was the Bavarian Rural Police. The US Army made M1 Carbines available to these local police units. The Bavarian carbines can be identified by the markings, BAVARIAN RURAL POLICE stamped on the receiver. Most carbines also had their components stamped with the last two, three of four digits of the original receiver serial number as was standard German practice.Ĭirca 1952, the US constabulary allocated Bavarian Police M1 carbines to Austria. The Austrian issued carbines can be identified by the LGK markings on the bottom of the trigger housing. The fourth letter references the receiving province and a national inventory number was stamped underneath. These Bavarian Police carbines were originally used AGAINST the Germans and Austrians during WWII and only after the war turned over to the former enemy. The Bavarian/Austrian carbines were returned to the US and then sold via the CMP starting in 2009. The carbines were considered returned US military property and therefore were not required to have import markings. On this one the receiver is marked " BAVARIAN RURAL POLICE" and the trigger housing is marked "L.G.K.T" and "0489". The last four of the receivers serial number is also stamped inside the sling well, the hand guard and is engraved on the top of the bolt. The stock also has the crossed cannons in the right spot for a wartime, high wood, Inland stock, the barrel is marked Inland with a 9-43 date, and the front sight is "N" marked which is also correct for a war time Inland carbine. It obviously went through some sort of update/rebuild based on the type II/II sights and Type III barrel band. The gun came from CMP - the seller says he hasn't fired it or swapped parts on it since he bought it from CMP in 2009.
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