I am still seething about the destruction of all the Garands and Carbines that were to be returned from South Korea. What a waste.
Those haven’t been destroyed AFAIK. Those rifles were purchased from the US by S Korea. Private importers have been trying for years to get permission to import them, held up by both the Bush and Obama administrations. IIRC, the CMP is not authorized to act as a firearms importer.
P.S. I think the S Korea rifles are all in shipping containers in S Korea.