Posted on 07/15/2017 10:40:37 AM PDT by PROCON
Most likely not good, the Marines in the mid 80’s were attaching strings to the slides to prevent them from flying into your face.
I don’t need one but I want ONE! or TWO! or FIVE!
“Most likely not good, the Marines in the mid 80’s were attaching strings to the slides to prevent them from flying into your face.”
That’s a Marine war story.
Btw, if it’s going to be used as a shooter replacement parts are plentiful. I may buy one when they come on the market if they’re not over priced. But, I won’t use it as a shooter.
If they’re anything like the one I learned to shoot during basic training in 1974, they would need a lot of work to be made into a truly serviceable weapon. Still, it would be a nice piece of history to own.
I believe CMP is going to be getting some surplus Garands from the Philippines.
Absolutely NOT! Get them in the hands of US citizens who will appreciate them.
During MAP, the firearms were given to allies or sold at steep discounts. The firearms are their property to dispose of as they wish. As I understand it, the M1 Garands and carbines (several hundred thousand) in Korea were purchased by a US firearms importer (CAI, if I remember correctly) but the physical importation was blocked by Obama’s State Department because Obama hates guns in the hands of civilians and they also consider the M1 carbine an “assault weapon”.
Unless they find a thousand of them. Then the best and most original will be auctioned off.
“...democrats and the enemy media will insist the 1911 is a “Military-Grade Weapon of War”...”
To which I would reply, “Damn straight. Get ready.”
Demand will be enormous. I expect they’ll be sold out within hours.
If you refinish you destroy collectors value. I would expect to put at minimum a new barrel, extractor and recoil spring in one.
Any high payoff versions like USS and Singer, Colt 1911s ( not A1)will be auctioned separately from the rank and file RemRand etc. IBM made carbines, not 1911s, I think.
When these hit the CMP sales system, they will not be bargain basement offerings. The expected generic model price will likely be in the $500-700 range, based on condition and other features like matching numbers ( rare). This is from a discussion with the CMP director last year.
The ones they gave us to qualify with in the early 70’s were so loose they would almost disassemble themselves.
I have one manufactured in 1914 - lots of use so some parts have been replaced but still a collectors item and still shoots sweet.
MAP-supplied arms are regarded as still being US property, to be either purchased by the recipient government or returned to the US. People have been trying to bring back the Korean rifles since the 90s...the gray ownership, plus the Koreans’ wanting to be paid for them and having lied about the provenance of the rifles they sold in the 80s, has kept them from coming back here since long before Obama.
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