They are drawing from a finite inventory, which has suffered a telling blow during the Clinton era. He caused untold numbers of them (as well as Garand and other irreplaceable pieces of history) to be "demilled" (in other words, chopped to pieces).
Many, such as the ones from which the pieces in the link below were taken, were new/unissued condition -- a monumental waste of the taxpayers' money.
And there wasn't even the fig-leaf of an excuse pretending that by destroying them, "they wouldn't end up on the street." The M14 rifles that he caused to be destroyed were prohibited from being sold into the surplus market, due to the fact that they are fully automatic weapons.
The only thing that makes sense, is that he intended to cause harm to the military, and, to the economy. And today, his actions are causing American soldiers to die, as they wait for the scant few remaining M14 rifles in the inventory.
Here, take a look at the use he put your tax dollars to. You not only paid to have these rifles built, but, you also paid to have them destroyed.
But wait, it gets better....
It seems that after destroying these valuable tools, even more tax dollars were wasted, "beautifying" some pieces of the destroyed rifles, to make them into "checkers" pieces for a Democrat VIP.
A little salt in the national wound, perhaps?
Take your BP meds, and then click on the link below:
(Disclaimer: I have no connection with that person, I don't even know who he is. I was shown the link, and now I'm passng it along.)
I read somewhere that a bunch of like new Winchester 52 .22 target rifles were also destroyed.