Posted on 12/10/2017 11:41:27 AM PST by shove_it
There, fixed it for you.
Didn’t they give a lot of Garands as part of the Vietnamization program? Dropped once I’m sure. The rifles were bigger than ARV troops.
There are some treasures to be found among these 1911A1s.
In 1976, I was conducting and inventory of the unit arms room in Germany and came across a Union Switch & Signal manufactured 1911A1 with all matching parts. I wonder what CMP will sell that one for when it arrives.
Where did you hear that about the French army?
“Where did you hear that about the French army?”
From the Germans, mostly.
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Strange. I’ve only seen that sales pitch used for surplus Italian army Carcanos.
Look at the long list of hoops to jump through before being eligible:
http://thecmp.org/cmp_sales/1911-information/
Not worth it in my mind, and the hi-grade 1911’s will surely go for a premium.
Quite happy with my Sig 1911 STX with night sites.......and one is all I can shoot at a time.......
My father-in-law had a mint WWII Army Colt 1911 and after he died my ignoramus brother-in-law had no idea what it was, didn’t tell his sisters about it, sold it cheap to a local dealer to buy a Ruger Judge.........I chewed him out for doing so without telling his family. Then he did the same thing with his fathers rare 1940’s Belgian shotgun a year later.........
I have my father’s Navy S&W .38 Special that has never been fired in original holster/belt, etc. - when leaving the Navy the Chief would not let him turn it in - another had been turned in with the same serial # and the Chief said he’d have to explain the error, and my dad should just keep it. Too bad the Navy didn’t use 1911’s for their officers.....
My dad said it about ARVN rifles.
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The British Army had the right idea for a long time.
Officers purchased their own pistols, out of a group selected by the Army as available for service. The pistol was their personal weapon, and it stayed with them when they left the service.
I have long thought a similar system would work well in the United States.
We also need to reinvigorate the custom of war trophies. Up until the first Gulf War, under Bush I, American servicemen could bring back captured weapons as war trophies. Bush I unilaterally ended this over two century tradition, one supposes, simply to fit the globalist agenda.
President Trump should reinstate it.
Those Deals you mention are reason
enough to jump through the hoops
CMP Demands but currently you could
Buy a 1911 “new” or a nice
Vintage Colt cheaper with less
Headaches.
THANKS
..but No thanks.
I HATE that lousy b@$tard for that. I have the back half of one of those M1’s that I bought as a paperweight for 25 cents. Makes me want to cry every time I see it.
Dude!
That ain’t vandalism, that is provenance!
Well this is a start, but I don’t need another 1911. How about putting some Garand’s up for sale?
I would like to see m14 rifles released through CMP. With the selector boss milled off they would be no more capable of being converted to select fire than a civilian Springfield Armory m1a. Unfortunately ATF has a “once a machine gun always a machine gun policy”.
“Unfortunately ATF has a “once a machine gun always a machine gun policy”.
Yep. Stupid and should be changed.
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I actually got all my paperwork together when I first heard about this, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
I think they will be going for $1100.00 from CMP.Way too much!
It will go to auction.
During WW II all the Colt output of 1911 went to Army
Navy was forced to go to S&W to buy Model 10 revolvers
S&W was producing them for Brits (in their 38 caliber)
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