CMP to start selling newly manufactured M1 Garands

[1srelluc]

Introducing the M1 Garand by CMP: A New Chapter Begins! - Civilian Marksmanship Program

An Update from CMP Chairman and CEO Jerry O’Keefe As some of you may have seen on social media, we are about to roll out a new program – the new M1 Garand by CMP. In March we brought two “test” M1 Garands out to Phoenix and the Ben Avery Shooting Facility during the Arizona Game & Fish March...

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As some of you may have seen on social media, we are about to roll out a new program – the new M1 Garand by CMP. In March we brought two “test” M1 Garands out to Phoenix and the Ben Avery Shooting Facility during the Arizona Game & Fish March Outdoor Expo. We did the same at the recent CMP Eastern Games in NC to begin to introduce this new CMP project and product line. It is in fact a project we’ve been working on for quite some time with our partner and the manufacturer of the receiver – Heritage Arms USA. More about Heritage Arms USA will follow below.

Blah, first repro stock sets, then barrels, and now this.

Problem is that they put themselves out of business by allowing people to purchase so many Garands per year just for those people to flip them at gun shows.

$800.00 rack grade CMP Garands are easily selling for $1200.00 plus these days at any shop or gun show in the land.

Now they’re running out of surplus rifles to the point that they have to sell newly manufactured ones.

Sure, I get that milsurps dry-up quickly on the retail market but the CMP was not supposed to be a wholesaler to a retail gun show/shop business.

If they had limited the surplus Garands to 1 per year or even 1 per lifetime as the DCM did, then there would have been plenty of inexpensive US surplus rifles and parts for future generations.

Unfortunately they allowed their gun show selling associates to get the rules changed from the DCM days. It’s a real shame they sold themselves out both literally and figuratively.

Meh, I guess some will be OK with a clone.

 

[Woodznutz]

Shot "sharpshooter" with the M1 in basic. Would have shot "expert" but the targets were all shot up and wouldn't go down. However, I shot "expert" twice with the M14, which replaced the M1 while I was in service.

Patton had high praise for the M1.

Patton & the Garand: “Greatest Battle Implement Ever Devised” - The Armory Life

Many World War II veterans and M1 enthusiasts alike are often heard echoing Patton’s words, but few know the context in which it was made.

www.thearmorylife.com

 

[Moonglow]

The M-16s we had in basic were crap.

 

[Woodznutz]

The M-16s we had in basic were crap.

I liked it better than the M1, not as heavy, quicker to point. About the same recoil as the M1 was heavier and soaked up more recoil.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Fulton Armory makes new M1 garands and M1 carbines. They are not cheap but they are awesome.

Fulton Armory

Your Source for Service Rifles: M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M14 / M1A & AR Types

www.fulton-armory.com

 

[1srelluc]

Shot "sharpshooter" with the M1 in basic. Would have shot "expert" but the targets were all shot up and wouldn't go down. However, I shot "expert" twice with the M14, which replaced the M1 while I was in service.

Patton had high praise for the M1.

Patton & the Garand: “Greatest Battle Implement Ever Devised” - The Armory Life

Many World War II veterans and M1 enthusiasts alike are often heard echoing Patton’s words, but few know the context in which it was made.

www.thearmorylife.com

I don't even like .30-06 Garands all that much given the M2 ammo hoops you must jump through. I keep some M2 on hand for when I snag a Garand to make sure it works properly before I trade it off.

Both of my Navy Garands are in 7.62 NATO.

LOL....A guy brought in four cans of 70s era USGI M2 ammo yesterday.....768 rds (192 rds. four bandoliers of six 8-Round M1 Garand Enbloc Clips per can) and sold it for a dollar a round.

I swear, he no sooner than he left than another guy came in, saw it, and and paid $1100.00 bucks for it.

The shop owner made over $300.00 in a few minutes and never even had to touch it!

 

[1srelluc]

Fulton Armory makes new M1 garands and M1 carbines. They are not cheap but they are awesome.

Fulton Armory

Your Source for Service Rifles: M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M14 / M1A & AR Types

www.fulton-armory.com

They did a M1A build for me years ago. I messed-up and got a National Match build. It's a heavy bitch but it shoots lights out.

 

[Zincwarrior]

They did a M1A build for me years ago. I messed-up and got a National Match build. It's a heavy bitch but it shoots lights out.

I would love to get a pair of M1 carbines with rails but am not going to shell out $5 Grand to do that.

 

[1srelluc]

I would love to get a pair of M1 carbines with rails but am not going to shell out $5 Grand to do that.

I have a line on one of these....A M1E7 but with a Korean vintage M84 scope/M3 base instead of the late WW-2 M1E7 with the shorter base and 2.5X Weaver.

I'm GTG for 4-5K but I suspect the guy is savvy enough to know what he has.....I figure he will ask between 6-7K.

 

[Zincwarrior]

NOICE!

 

[Moonglow]

I liked it better than the M1, not as heavy, quicker to point. About the same recoil as the M1 was heavier and soaked up more recoil.

Sure , but the ones in basic had been ridden hard and put away wet.