[OK Sun]

Hard to believe military standards have fallen so low that people like this can be found in decision making positions. Does anyone know who in the Army wrote this position paper?

[Radix]

Is this the same Army that has provided Islamic jihadists with Billions of Dollars worth of armaments, ordnance, vehicles, and state of the art military supplies of all sorts?

[USMCPOP]

"...semi-automatic and concealable pistols..."

A 1911A1 is readily concealable in a Speedo if you are Enzyte Bob.

[Vendome]

Wouldn’t he more at home in Pol Pot’s or Mao’s army?

[familyop]

There’s no letterhead or other evidence of the source. I doubt the honesty of the author’s allegation against the Army. We’ve been seeing more defamations against our defense and veterans over the past year or two from political socialists posing as conservatives.

[Jack Hammer]

Has the CMP become an American version of the Soviet Communist Mindset People?

[familyop]

Here's the original source of the file. You Ayatollah-hugging commies can KMA. And quit b****ing about Iranian interests getting killed by other Moslems. If you love the Ayatollah so much, get out of my country and move in with him.

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/CMPInfoPaper11May.pdf

Here's the source that Evan Gillespie and the FPC used.

Defense Bill Would Put 100,000 Untraceable Guns On Streets
by Michael McAuliff
Posted: 05/12/2015 10:41 am EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/ndaa-guns_n_7265184.html

[familyop]

Here’s a group that’s smarter (demands for proof of authorship of that “letter”).

Bill to Allow Sale of Surplus 1911 Pistols through CMP
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6078462

[familyop]

Scroll to comment #6, and read down from there.

Bill to Allow Sale of Surplus 1911 Pistols through CMP
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6078462

[atomic_dog]

I read that letter. I have dealt with the CMP for years buying ammunition and various surplus rifles. That report contains demonstrable falsehoods. I also note that there is no signature or letterhead indicating the origin. In my 19 years in the military I *NEVER* saw such a document with no indication of its origination. Congress should immediately investigate whence it came as I suspect that some mid-level hoplophobe has taken policy into his or her own hands to write this.

Then I recalled that one can check document properties for a .pdf file and the author is identified as one "Natalie Abt"

Deep googlefu shows a Natalie Abt as a point of contact for "Feds Feed Families" deep in the bowels of the "Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller) Office of the Secretariat." That is basically Army budgeting. Why is a flunky in the comptrollers office weighing in on gun control??? Something does not smell right here and needs the light of day on it.

[Rodamala]

The white paper must have been written by someone ignorant of the actual implementation of the CMP.

[Billthedrill]

I'd love to have one, more as a curiosity than anything else. Every one I ever handled would need a full rebuild before it came up to minimum civilian standards these days. That's the bad news, the good being that they aren't very difficult to work on and I have most of the parts already. You'd want to keep the trigger (ugh) and the hammer, slide, frame and grips for authenticity. Original issue sights gotta go if I'm going to shoot the thing with these old eyes. Original issue holsters are still available. Fun stuff.

Yes, it is soul-chilling to think of 100,000 .45's marching through America's defenseless city streets. Scary stuff - it's sort of like trying to fill a swimming pool with an eye dropper. Somebody in D.C. is smoking crack again.

[thorvaldr]

Gotta love the liberal fantasy land.
Oh, but what if the CMP treated 1911’s completely different than they have treated M1’s for the last 70 years. We need to be concerned that they will do that!

[RC one]

How many M1 garands and 03A3s have been used as murder weapons over the years I wonder? versus, say, tire irons or baseball bats.

[Tallguy]

Had a chucked when they used the term “concealable”. That’s a reach. They just looking for excuses.

[DesertRhino]

“concerns included the traceability of the firearms after sale”

The holy grail of the anti gun crowd, and an utterly useless law enforcement technique.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Put California state senator Leland Yee in charge of distributing them.