INTERESTING.
FYI, I am NOT a particular “fan of” The Mattel Special.= When I was first on AD & in an OCONUS area, long ago, our unit still had a FEW NM-grade Garand rifles (supposedly for the use of “Selected Marksmen”) in the arms room & as I was “in charge of” such things, I issued myself an “as new” circa 1956 I-H Garand.
When the US Army DEMANDED that those “obsolete weapons be turned in to the depot” (The Garand Rifles were replaced with Remington Model 700 rifles in .308WCF), I gave up my old rifle “kicking & screaming” & then “issued myself” a Ithaca Model 37 Featherweight riot-gun.
(Note: ImVho, the BEST Garand rifles ever made are the post-Korean War rifles made by H&R & I-H.)
Btw, I’ve “heard”, but CANNOT CONFIRM, that there are a FEW AR-18 rifles that are C&R. = I might buy one of those IF it wasn’t priced really, really, high & had the folding stock.
Yours, TMN78247
I don't know how may AR-18s are on the National Registry, but I do know there are a few. They come up at the auctions every once in a while.
I do know that the Armalite-produced semi-auto only AR-180 were manufactured between 1969 and 1972, so the '69 and '70 guns are C&R eligible now, with the remainder to come online by 2022.
Howa AR-180s have later manufacture dates (1970-74,) so they will become C&R eligible in the next few years.