With the passage of NDAA 2018 by the House, the CMP will be one step closer to selling the 1911's they have in storage: https://www.ammoland.com/2017/07/cmp-sales-1911s-one-step-closer-house-passage/
Two changes are in the House language, it makes the transfer mandatory, and it removes the 10,000 a year cap. It still has to be reconciled with Senate action to be passed to the President for his signature.
It's going to be some time yet until the CMP accepts them, sorts them out, and starts listing them. As previously discussed the better grade models will be auctioned at current retails which seem to be dominated by collectors.
There is of yet any confirmation of a new "Trench Grade" class of guns which would resemble those on gun show tables assembled from largely cast off parts with $1,100 price tags. By anecdotal observation there seems to be a glut in that market if auction sites are an indicator. If Garand sales are any evidence, those auction sites will likely have flippers competing to see who can overprice their "rare" Government models with at least three Ordnance rebuild markings and sample parts from Remington, Ithaca, and certainly, SInger.
Yeah, I'm little cynical about the whole thing.
It also goes to selling them all instead of rationing them out, which makes for speculation about why. Once gone, and with Garand supplies dwindling, it would seem to accelerate the complete lack of arms to be sold at all by the CMP. There is no known effort being made to allow the alteration of M16's currently in the hands of the Government for civilian sales. That leaves the CMP with no foreseeable future if firearms sales are to finance it.
If we can't allow the alteration of M16's then there will be no sales in the future. It's a closed door.
Two changes are in the House language, it makes the transfer mandatory, and it removes the 10,000 a year cap. It still has to be reconciled with Senate action to be passed to the President for his signature.
It's going to be some time yet until the CMP accepts them, sorts them out, and starts listing them. As previously discussed the better grade models will be auctioned at current retails which seem to be dominated by collectors.
There is of yet any confirmation of a new "Trench Grade" class of guns which would resemble those on gun show tables assembled from largely cast off parts with $1,100 price tags. By anecdotal observation there seems to be a glut in that market if auction sites are an indicator. If Garand sales are any evidence, those auction sites will likely have flippers competing to see who can overprice their "rare" Government models with at least three Ordnance rebuild markings and sample parts from Remington, Ithaca, and certainly, SInger.
Yeah, I'm little cynical about the whole thing.
It also goes to selling them all instead of rationing them out, which makes for speculation about why. Once gone, and with Garand supplies dwindling, it would seem to accelerate the complete lack of arms to be sold at all by the CMP. There is no known effort being made to allow the alteration of M16's currently in the hands of the Government for civilian sales. That leaves the CMP with no foreseeable future if firearms sales are to finance it.
If we can't allow the alteration of M16's then there will be no sales in the future. It's a closed door.