[nfafan]

Just as everyone else has said, with these 2 points;

The M1 carbine while great fun, have become way overpriced, and they're expensive to shoot.

Try strongly to consider choosing a rifle that will almost certainly be banned/attempted to be banned soon - the AK for sure, or the SKS.
Any of the USA made rifles will be a safer bet to survive the Dems, and so will still be available after the Obamanoids ban the AK.