{"id":25108,"date":"2024-07-17T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/colt-service-model-ace-carbine-williams-makes-a-22-1911\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:00:04","slug":"colt-service-model-ace-carbine-williams-makes-a-22-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/colt-service-model-ace-carbine-williams-makes-a-22-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt Service Model Ace: Carbine Williams Makes a .22 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35B3jWUFWWI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carbine Williams&#8221;, aka David Marshall Williams, has a reputation as the designer of the M1 Carbine, and a very colorful history. He was a moonshiner who pled guilty to second degree murder of a sheriff&#8217;s deputy and served time in prison. He gained a reputation as a gunsmith in prison, fixing the department&#8217;s guns in the prison shop, and was eventually allowed to work on his own firearms designs. Eventually released, he patented a design for a gas tappet system. The system was used for the M1 Carbine (that was really the extent of his contribution to that design) and a related &#8220;floating chamber&#8221; system was used in a .22 rimfire conversion of the 1911 pistol and the M1919 Browning machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>The Colt Service Model Ace used William&#8217;s floating chamber concept to improve their previous Colt Ace .22 1911 conversion. The first prototypes were ready in 1932, and production ran from 1935 until 1945 (plus a reintroduction from 1978-1982). Most sales went to the US military, which bought 13,808 complete pistols and a bit more than 2,000 conversion kits. 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He was a moonshiner who pled guilty to second degree murder of a sheriff&#8217;s deputy and served time in prison. He gained a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/colt-service-model-ace-carbine-williams-makes-a-22-1911\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colt Service Model Ace: Carbine Williams Makes a .22 1911<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}