What happened to all the Italian Garand parts??

They've been flogged on ebay for quite a few years now and are drying up and going up in price. Lots of them have been imported into the US by major dealer like Sarco and GPC.

The cheap Beretta and Breda receivers that we see in Canada are the aftermath of many Garands being parted out here and sold as parts kits to the US 15 yrs or so ago.
 
The Italian guns were sold as parts kits to America. The US guns were sold as complete guns in Canada.
The reason for this was all US guns or parts kits couldn't go to America. America considered them lend lease
and they thought they owned them. CMP has the US military bring back the guns to America then sells them.
Most of the 10000 that I helped sort were turned into parts kits. Most of the Danish M1d sniper rifles were
also turned into parts kits for America.
 
purple said:
They've been flogged on ebay for quite a few years now and are drying up and going up in price. Lots of them have been imported into the US by major dealer like Sarco and GPC.

The cheap Beretta and Breda receivers that we see in Canada are the aftermath of many Garands being parted out here and sold as parts kits to the US 15 yrs or so ago.
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I know that they can't import US receivers. (unless it's through the CMP)

But couldn't Americans import complete Italian garands?
 
can14 said:
The Italian guns were sold as parts kits to America. The US guns were sold as complete guns in Canada.
The reason for this was all US guns or parts kits couldn't go to America. America considered them lend lease
and they thought they owned them. CMP has the US military bring back the guns to America then sells them.
Most of the 10000 that I helped sort were turned into parts kits. Most of the Danish M1d sniper rifles were
also turned into parts kits for America.
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Do they get more selling one as a parts kit in the US vs selling a complete rifle in Canada?
 
cantom said:
Do they get more selling one as a parts kit in the US vs selling a complete rifle in Canada?
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It's likely they do get more profit out of the kits than complete rifles because of bureaucratic hurdles and maybe even taxes. Whatever, the amount of rifles brought into Canada for parts would have flooded the market value to the same levels as SKS rifles. We've seen this happen before with Garands and many of us, including myself didn't purchase enough of them as investments. I was given an offer of 20 rifles for $2000 just over a decade back. Am I upset I didn't do it??? NO, I have made better investments with that money and I didn't have to store them.

They are in short supply right now. Getting the parts from the US to complete a build on those rifles would be quite expensive.

I know you understand how it works but when it comes to anything milsurp, if you want it buy it. Even if you have to pay a premium in some cases. They won't be available forever and with the UN agreements as well as the US government paying nations to destroy their surplus firearms we will be seeing less and less of what we once thought was a bottomless pit. Viet Nam quite literally had hundreds of thousands of M1 Garands and Carbines lend leased to the ARVN. The same goes for Korea and the ROK. This is just a drop in the bucket when you include Turkey, Greece and many European/South American nations.

The rifles are there. Whether they will be there for much longer is another story. The only blessing I can see happening is that more of them are stripped for parts and made available in North America. This will at least keep our old girls from becoming closet queens.

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I read something about the Japanese going to Vietnam I think it was and paying them to take a huge pile of rifles and deposit them in the sea, where the tide comes in and out. This convincingly destroys them.

Not sure where I saw this but I did.

Remember the shipment of Vietnam trench guns etc that came in like 25 years ago? Many of those were heavily rusted and pitted and that was long ago.

I highly doubt there is anything left there that is worthwhile.
 
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