https://www.pagunblog.com/2008/12/18/more-on-cmp-and-the-m-14
https://www.gunandgame.com/threads/destroying-federal-stocks-of-weapons.79893
I found this interesting, though: "...For political reasons the CMP is not chartered to sell the thousands of 1911’s surplussed by the switch to the M9. Doesn’t have much practical impact, though, as the company in Anniston that had been bandsawing Garands and M14s, and crushing 1911’s, had been running 3 shifts for more than a year. There are, for all practical purposes, no 1911’s left. Destruction of Garands and M14’s is halted. Remaining rifles returned to storage..."
I had heard there were going to be a bunch of 1911s being sold by CMP...wonder where they were being squirreled away?