RE: M-1 Carbine Brass
You're right AF. It is getting mighty hard to find. Makes me sick to think I used to have couple thousand cases. Anyway, you'll be lucky to find any once fired but this is a good place to ask. Maybe somebody will help you out. Otherwise, as has been suggested, it's gonna be Midway. There is or was some fairly reasonable bulk ammo for it but be dang sure if you buy some surplus loaded stuff that it's not berdan primed.
Since this is for a friend, just tell him to bite the bullet and get him to order cases from Midway.