OK. Super Dumb Question About CMP

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First, thank you to all of you who answered my last question about the Springfield Garands.

Now for the above described DUMB question. I was on the CMP website and I downloaded their brochure. In it is an order form. Now I read it 2 or 3 times, and they say that they will submit the order form for a background check, but they made no mention of a FFL. What gives? Did I miss something? Do they do the background check and send the rifle to your house?

That can't be right.... CAN IT?
 
Correct. Goes straight to your door (except for commercial rifles that they sell, specifically the Anschutz).
 
NO CRAP

You mean that we still might be in America?

So I can get a Garand sent right to my door?
 
Dogbonz,

Yessir, right to your door! The CMP is chartered by the US government and that fact makes them exempt from any gun control laws. It was the same with their predecessor the DCM ( I got my Garand from them in '83 and in those days you could only get ONE in your lifetime!) :p

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This is all provided you sent in all of the other requirements for the CMP purchase.
 
Having the Fedex driver deliver that long box to your front door is one of the coolest things about buying a Garand from the CMP.

And, I know a lot of the descriptions of the CMP's current batch of rifles contain the word crapshoot, but keep this in mind: The people at the CMP are an absolute pleasure to deal with and will bend over backwards to make it right if you encounter a problem with your rifle. So you might not get the prettiest rifle in the world, but it will function and be a shootable rifle.

Have fun.
 
yep right to your door. not in my case i had to walk to the fence to get it they would bring it past the dogs
 
The day my Garand came to my home, I was out to lunch. My Granddaddy, a WW2 vet who used the M1, lives next door and he signed for it. I grew up listening to his stories. So part of the cool factor was not only it coming to my home, but 20minutes after it arrived, I got to open that box with Graddaddy there to see it.
 
Mr White, I understand your concern, but you don't know my Granddaddy. To this day he still believes in his old mission, that he'd rather fight 'em over there than have to fight 'em here. If he were going to have flashbacks, he'd have had them while telling about his experiences which he started telling me about when I was three or four years old. As I got older, I started thinking to ask him questions so I could understand better. He's one of the many men we can't thank enough for being there for us. And he's the one that turned me on to the Garand. He always said it's a great rifle and he knew when I put in for it. When mine came in, I racked the bolt, looked it over and handed it to him... he said two things. One comment, because he's in his 80's now, was "I carried one many a mile; were they always this heavy". The other... "there's nothing obsolete about that rifle".
 
I was just kidding.

You always hear the stories of Viet Nam vets having flashbacks when they hear a helicoptor, or see an Asian, or something like that. You rarely ever heard stories of WWII vets having flashbacks. The thought of an old WWII vet having a flashback when he sees a Garand is kind of funny on some strange level.

But make no mistake, I have nothing but the greatest respect for those guys. Count yourself very lucky to have a grandfather who was there and can still tell stories. Get him to tell you as many as possible and hang on every word.

I run into an old guy at the range sometime who I think was in the 101st in WWII. He always wears an old cap with a 101st insignia and I've seen him in a 101st reunion t shirt. He knows his way around an M1 pretty well. He's mentioned putting lots of rounds thru his M1 during the war. I don't really know him that well and haven't gotten up the nerve to ask him. Maybe this summer if I see him.
 
Hmmm... this is very interesting.Too bad they are all sold out of the good ones but I book marked the site so I can keep an eye on them. Can anyone tell me what the service grade were going for when they were in stock?
 
The Greek issue Springfields were $450. The H&Rs I think were $500 and the Winchesters were even more than that, But I'm sure they're all long gone. They might come up with a few thousand more Springfields somewhere in the future, but I wouldn't hold my breath. But then again, everyone thought the M1 Carbines were long gone too.
 
Mine get delivered to my office.

No one is home during the day and some of the drivers are sticklers about that "adult signature required" policy.

I had them deliver two cans of 30.06 Lake City ammo too. I had it sitting on a windowsill to take home with me and one of the guys came in and asked "What's in the ammo boxes?" I told him to open one and see. "Damn, you actually have ammo in the ammo box!"

It's tough not to open that box until i get it home or everyone else leaves the office, but I never miss a shipment.

Next on the list, one or maybe two of the new carbines they got in.
 
I've also heard and read about the DCM prior to becoming the CMP. Can anyone chime in when did the CMP or the DCM start selling more than 1 garand to a buyer? Was that when the Clintons were still around or during the Bush Sr's administration? I think it was in 2006 when the CMP increased the annual per buyer limit to 12 from 8, correct?

Thanks
 
I got my first M1 from the DCM.
It was one rifle and one rifle only then and I had to wait for seven months to get the gun.
Still have it, a 4.2 Springfield.
When DCM first became CMP it was still one rifle for a short time but then Danish rifles and a flood of rifles came in from Govt. armories, and they had become an independent branch program no longer directly connected to any government entity and could loosen the buying requirements a bit.

When I say CMP was one rifle only that isn't totally correct because you could buy a service M1, a Danish M1, three different .22 rifles, there were barrelled receivers and plain receivers available then as now and if I remember correctly you could buy as many of those as you wanted.
They didn't have service grade, rack grade, field grade breakdown then either.
All rifles were lumped together and it was strictly luck of the draw.
You were assured of getting a rifle that had a barrel attached and it was guaranteed to go bang when you pulled the trigger or they would fix or replace it.
 
plus of course, they only cost @150 to @200 back then, right, even though they weren't classifed as service, field, rack grades, etc.

How would those compare to the service, field, rack, correct or collector of today or even a few years past?

Could've some lucky fella ended up getting a correct, collector or service grade type of today all for only $150-$200 even though he/she can only have one?
 
You always hear the stories of Viet Nam vets having flashbacks when they hear a helicoptor, or see an Asian, or something like that. You rarely ever heard stories of WWII vets having flashbacks. The thought of an old WWII vet having a flashback when he sees a Garand is kind of funny on some strange level.
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I smell diesel exhaust and I flash back to 1975, USS Kitty Hawk, dead in the water with only one boiler fired, a machinery space flooded, and all the diesel generators running. Hell of a flashback.

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CMP requirements.

I have a NV CCW license, a Curio and Relics FFL, and I am a member of the NRA. I thought this was enough to place order but now I do not see the NRA listed as an affiliated club. I could have sworn it was in the past. Am I good to order or do I have to join the Garand Collectors Association GCA or The Carbine Club? How isntant are these memberships? If I need to join should I join now so it clears in time for the Carbine release or can I join and order in the same day?
 
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