Back in my Las Vegas Stagehand days, I worked around stage props daily. Never any firearms, but lots'a other cool stuff.
A coworker whose dad worked on movie sets back in the 50s somehow ended up with one of the M1 Garands used in the musical "South Pacific". Nothing nefarious, they just gave it to him at the end of production.
I can tell you from first hand experience that the M1 worked just fine.
BTW, that spring powered clip springing out on the last shot will get your attention!
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