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I just feel that if you like the term enough to use it, you ought to stick to the accepted definition.

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Some combination of it being a carbine, and not chambered in a full-size rifle cartridge. Semantic difference. Whether it was in battle is undisputed but irrelevant

Would you like to test that theory?

While it's sick as heck, I'm fairly certain that an m1 carbine isn't technically a battle rifle