"It will without question outreach and outpunch any issue carbine in service today."
So should just about any other rifle.
The smart military doesn't use one weapon for all jobs. The advantage the US army had back in the '40's wasn't the Garand all by itself; it was the fact that it had a superb weapon for all roles--Garands, Thompsons, BAR's, M1 Carbines, and so on.
When the Army got cheap and tried to replace them with "one size fits all" weapons (starting with the M-14), that's when things began a downhill slide.
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