This is awesome if it’s true. I’m going to ask my local gun stores about this. In the 90s Bill Clinton ordered I believe half a million M-1 rifles destroyed that had never been taken out of their boxes . They were all WW2 surplus. I thought that was a disgusting thing to do to rifles that could have easily been sold or given to tax payers who don’t get anything. Those rifles were part of our history. They should have given one to every Boy Scout in America or gun clubs or sold .
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.
The number was more like 56,000 and Congress passed a law in early 96 preventing the destruction of serviceable M1s.