Possibly because the CMP will be cataloging them as boxes are received from the arsenal and opened. They are all inspected for operation and safety. The M1 rifles all had their rifle’s bores measured. Then the weapons will be priced by historical importance (rare manufacturers) and graded.
If they do the same as the rifles, you could pay extra for a particular manufacturer, or a better condition rifle, but not necessarily both. I just bought mine from the luck of the draw and received a 1943 Springfield with all parts correct except for some trigger parts. It even had the barrel with the proper date to match the receiver, which is very uncommon. And the barrel measured out as almost new.
I won many a local match with it and shot in the national JC Garand Match a few times.
Even if I can meet that requirement it’s unlikely I’ll buy one. I have a Springfield 1911 and while it’s an accurate and reliable weapon I rarely carry it. I’m a lefty and require a 1911 with an ambi safety, which mine does. Still the safety lever digs into my side as I carry IWB. I’d be surprised if there are many, if any, that meet that requirement coming from the Army.
Meh. Even with a reasonable price-point, there’s enough 1911 offerings on the market to make me NOT want to jump though CMP hoops.
Based upon what I’ve seen of CMP pricing on M1 Garands, you’re going to pay top-dollar for anything really worth having (speaking strictly from a quality standpoint), and still pay close to the current market value of a newly made, bog standard 1911-pattern pistol just to get an old, blown out rattle-trap, and neither will come with any kind of verifiable history.
The most “history” you’re likely to get (if you even get this much) is that it was assigned to a specific unit, during a certain time frame. So you might get a pistol that was assigned to, say, the 1st Air Cav Division from 1957 to 1972. As such, it might have been present at the Battle of Ia Drang. Tracing it to a specific soldier, or verifying its “participation” in the Battle of Ia Drang, would be extremely difficult, bordering on impossible.
Then again, it may have sat in the unit Arms Room for the duration, before going to Ft. Hood Texas, to be assigned to some generic MP garrison unit until its retirement sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.
I haven’t been out to the range in ten years, but I have a Colt 1991A1 (their ‘reissue’ of the 1911, with the flat grip), and a civilian serial-numbered Colt’s Government Model from, IIRC, 1916. I haven’t fired the latter, but the former is fun. Not my favourite, but fun to shoot nonetheless.
I don’t need another one. (In fact, I’d like to start selling off my collection.)
Hell, it’d be amazing just to find one that made it OUT of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. :eek:
The page you linked to (Midway USA) currently shows steel-cased Tulammo .45 at $0.27 a round. That’s pretty good, though as others have noted, 9mm is cheaper.
They don’t sort it by price automatically. I’ve shot the Tulammo stuff, and it’s pretty good. Steel cases in handgun ammo only really matter if you reload. They CAN be reloaded (I’ve done it) but they probably can’t handle as many reloads as brass. It’s a marginal difference at best, IMHO.
I’ve used them before but probably won’t for this. Sounds like they will be expensive and modern ones are better. There are really no modern Garands and modern Carbines are mediocre IIRC. Also I don’t believe they will ship these without a FFL this time.
I fulfilled one requirement with a FFL 03 and the other by joining the Garand Collector’s Association ($30 or so).
Surprisingly, no. The stuff I had was Boxer primed, which is why I bothered to reload it. Tulammo’s 45 ACP appears to be one of the few Boxer-primed rounds they make. You can see it on the box on Midway USA’s website. I’m a bit puzzled why that is. It might be the machine tools to make the cases only come in Boxer-primed versions.
Handguns tend to be the weapon-of-choice of criminals; this hardly qualifies as “Most handguns are just used in muggings, carjackings, store robberies, etc.,…”
Considering the number of firearms in circulation (estimates around 300,000,000, no breakdown by type, though), approximately 0.15% or less (based upon the National Institute of Justice’s 2011 National Crime Victimization Survey) of any type are used annually in the commission of a violent crime.
So, unless one lives in a more restrictive State, an 18 year old can have this handgun directly shipped to his home? In order to buy any other handgun at retail, a person needs to be at least 21 and buy it from a licensed FFL in his home state.
Not exactly, that’s the general policy for Garands and Carbines (the url says rifle sales too). And the FFL does the background check, but in this case the CMP does the check. And then a second check is done by the FFL for the 1911s but not rifles.
And again, the rifles ship to your door (with adult signature). The pistols must go to FFL.
The requirements for the 1911s include:
“Potential purchasers will have to provide to CMP a new set of documents exhibiting: 1) proof of U.S. Citizenship, 2) proof of membership in a CMP affiliated club, 3) proof of participation in a marksmanship activity, 4) a new form 2A with notary, 5) a signed copy of the 01 Federal Firearms License in which the 1911 will be transferred to.”
No mention of 21, but then no mention of 18, so I assume the former. The wording seems to suggest so.