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.....
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.
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)