Someone (nobody knows who)made a claim that CMP may (but no ones sure) at some point in the future (but nobody knows when)start a M-14 distribution program (how...bid?,open sales?, no one knows).
Everyone is reluctant to give any info on where they heard it, through secret top-level government channels Im sure.
FWIW, Archy was good enough to point me to Freds M-14 Stocks as a starting point. See item #3.
Looks like we were both shootin' at pretty much the same target though!
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I don't know if a private election victory celebration dinner with a U.S. Congressman counts as *top-level* but he asked me to keep his name confidential until he can either begin drafting the legislation or work with another doing so. It may even become a bi-partisan effort.
And he's on the House Armed Services Committee.... But I am NOT giving out the name of the secret restaurant location where we ate. The service was quite good, the prices reasonable and the food excellant, and I'm not about to see that place get overrun.
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FWIW - In '97, on a business trip to Phoenix, I set aside a few hours to visit McMillan. They showed me a prototype synthetic M-14 folding stock, commissioned by the Navy. Their comments were to the effect that disenchantment with mouse gun performance in Iraq had led the Navy to claim a batch of M-14s for future use. Hope the current numbers mean there's something left over for the home guard.