>>63974628
Out of a carbine it’s outperformed by .357 magnum
>>63974645
It certainly was intended to be that, but it was a very common front line weapon in the Pacific theater and was the most produced long gun in WW2.

30 carbine isn’t powerful enough to be intermediate, 75% the muzzle energy of 5.56, 70% the muzzle energy of 8mm Kurz and 5.45, 50% the muzzle energy of 7.62 Soviet, but the M2 and M3 are too big to fit into the common idea of a submachine gun or even more so a PDW. It’s like if an assault rifle and a submachine gun had a baby. Both are really cool, and the M1-3 is therefore also really cool.

What it certainly is is a carbine because carbines have no requirement to having or not having select fire capabilities (or even being semiautomatic). Even more than that it’s a pistol caliber carbine and the fact that it was so well liked, produced, and utilized just shows how awesome PCCs are and that anyone who shits on them is a mouth breathing retard who is gay and probably also a furry.