The Government Is Selling A Bunch Of Classic WW2 Rifles

businessinsider.com ^ | 31 August, 2012 | Geoffrey Ingersoll

[Peet]

Whatever happened to those S. Korean M1’s they were trying to import that got nixxed by the State Dept. ?

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CMP sent out a notice that they will not have anything to do with the S. Korean M1’s. Paraphrasing; CMP is not an importer and only manages surplus .mil firearms.

The S. Korean M1’s will have to be acquired and re-sold by importers if the current liberal/fascist regime permits it.

Frankly I don’t expect this regime to permit the M1 Garands in and don’t hold out much hope a Romney regime would do so either...

[mylife]

I think Romney would open up the trade just because it makes no sense to hinder commerce.

Now were is all that Greek 30.06?

[Hiddigeigei]

I’ve heard an adage, “Ain’t much that can’t be fixed, with seven-hundred dollars or a thirty-oh-six.”

[Joe 6-pack]

"And just why was it, pray tell, that you had a gun out in a boat?"

[DuncanWaring]

Basements and closets throughout the land.

[MHGinTN]

Good luck finding an M1Carbine at CMP ... and when are the Korean returns of Garands supposed to hit the market?

[DuncanWaring]

Or, “There’s not much that can’t be fixed by suitable application of large sums of money, high explosives, or pushing someone off a cliff in the middle of the night”.

[mylife]

☺

[mylife]

You know? The lowly M1 Carbine is one of the funnest shooters out there.

[DuncanWaring]

[rlmorel]

Lol...doesn’t EVERYONE take their Garand out fishing???

[Tainan]

The AR-15 is the rifle my generation grew up with, and that's a good rifle, too, but there's something about a Garand that just can't be duplicated.

Airborne & Amen !

[OldPossum]

Maybe they do. I suppose then that the OP is behind the times...but that wouldn’t be unusual.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I think the M1 Garands have been approved, but the M1 carbines have all been held up because they meet some anti-gun zealot’s idea of an “assault weapon”.

[TurboZamboni]

I support the right to arm bears and Jimmy Carter.

[tnlibertarian]

bump for later.

[jboot]

What idiocy is this? CMP has been around for over half a century. My grandfathers took advantage of the program, back when they distributed handguns, even. These guys just discovered it? Via Wikileaks?

The lameness is cosmic.

[pabianice]

>>Now before you get your gun controlling underpants in a bunch: there is quite a rigorous screening process in order to obtain one of these bad boys.

Meanwhile, a fine SKS 56 can be had for 1/8 the money at any gun shop.

[jboot]

Where is this gun shop of which you speak? Beater SKS’s are going for north of $300 these days, nice ones without AWB mutilations can command $400+.

[marktwain]

Where is this gun shop of which you speak? Beater SKS’s are going for north of $300 these days, nice ones without AWB mutilations can command $400+.

pabianice must be remembering the good old days when we could buy all the nice SKS rifles we wanted at under a hundred each. Decent CMP Garands only run $625!

http://www.odcmp.com/Sales/m1garand.htm