The carbine gets flak as a combat weapon and some, but not all of it, is deserved.
However, the little rifle shone as a police rifle in many countries, especially with good ammunition with expanding bullets.
The same things that made it a fine patrol rifle for the law dogs also can make it a fine home defense weapon if some allowances are made for some of its operational problems. You need good magazines and at least a new operating spring to insure the necessary reliability.
I bought one of the CMP carbines the Italians sent back and have been quite happy with it. It did have one malfunction about every 100-150 rounds usually a failure to eject. Picking the best magazines and the new spring seems to have solved both problems and it hasn't had a malfunction in several hundred rounds.
My wife, who is a very small woman, 4'11" 110 pounds loves the rifle and it's her weapon to repel borders. She off and on thinks about having a red dot sight installed but I'm not doing that until I get an absolute yes on that one.
The self defense ammo we use is the currently unavailable Winchester 110 gr. semi jacketed hollow point. There is also some Israeli surplus Federal 110 gr soft point lying around. Both feed without a hiccup in the little rifle.
So there it is, a short, lightweight rifle shooting a cartridge that is more than up to the job with the right ammunition.
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