Posted on 07/15/2017 10:40:37 AM PDT by PROCON
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2810, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018. Included in the bill is a provision that would make U.S. Army surplus 1911 .45 ACP pistols available to the American public through the Civilian Marksmanship program (CMP).
In November of 2015, then-President Obama signed the NDAA for Fiscal year 2016 into law with language that authorized the Secretary of Defense to transfer 1911s no longer in service to the CMP for public sale. That language made the transfers subject to the Secretary’s discretion and capped them at 10,000 per year. Unsurprisingly, no actual transfers were made under the program while Obama remained in the White House.
This year’s language, however, would effectively make the transfers mandatory and would remove the yearly cap. Currently, the military has some 100,000 excess 1911s sitting in storage
(Excerpt) Read more at nraila.org ...
This isn't a done deal yet, democrats and the enemy media will insist the 1911 is a "Military-Grade Weapon of War" and fight the legislation.
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I wonder what kind of condition they’re in.
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That and its plain sexy looking
Excellent News!
Looking forward to getting one of these in the future. My others need a new sibling...
Give them to Iraqis and Iranians. Good way to deal with ISIS.
> That and its plain sexy looking
You’ve got to get out more. (As I sit here on a saturday writing this)
Give Obama credit, he didn't have them crushed like Clinton and Reno.
He said that the weapons they were issued, and had to qualify with, were pretty worn from all the previous live-fire training.
You might want to factor in a rebuild visit to a gunsmith if you get one, and it's not NIB.
....Give them to Iraqis and Iranians. Good way to deal with ISIS....
NO. The American taxpayer paid for them. The American taxpayers have first shot at them
The CMP will restore them to shootable conditions. It’d be really interesting to see which manufacturers are represented. If you could snap up a Singer or IBM made one that would be super cool.
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When we switched to the M9, the increase in accuracy was obvious. Some was attributed to the lower caliber...but many of the older soldiers also thought it was because the M9s didn’t rattle nearly as much as the 1911. Most of them are probably pretty worn out. Side note - now the M9s are getting worn out, quicker than the 1911 did.
Good news military firearms surplus cost recovery via citizen sale.
However, the 2018 NDAA under this administration and RINO’s does not appear to undo previous bad provisions, ie: there’s no rescission of the 2012 NDAA indefinite detention of American citizens that are deemed “beligerent” toward gov’t, nor is there rescission of deploying females in combat.
Damn RINO Uniparty self-interested sell outs.
2017 NDAA assessment, and was unable to find any mention on these items for 2018 NDAA -
The U.S. Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2017 with provisions that will force women to sign up for potential military draft and continues the practice of indefinite detention.
The last Government purchase of 1911s was in 1945. All those loose ones in the 80s were used through WWII, Korea, Vietnam. Nothing more than arsenal rework was done.
New they weren’t quite so loose.
The last Government purchase of 1911s was in 1945. All those loose ones in the 80s were used through WWII, Korea, Vietnam. Nothing more than arsenal rework was done.
New they weren’t quite so loose.
Cool. But call me when they start selling repatriated M1 Garand’s that Obutthole refused to allow import.
The Korean Garands’ issues go beyond politics...some were bought by them, while others were MAP aid (i.e. are still US property) and there’s no way to tell them apart. The Koreans lied previously regarding the nature of the rifles that were imported in the 80s, so the Feds have no reason to take them at their word now.
On the other hand, word is a large number of Garands are coming back to the CMP from the Philippines in the near future.
If the CMP finds anything from Singer or US&S, you can bet that’s going to auction.
Everything from rattle guns to practically new.
They won’t be cheap. I expect them to sell them slightly below market value, like they have done in the past with rifles. The CMP will price them according to condition and manufacturer.
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