Garands available from The CMP in the U.S.
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Those had a hard life before getting back to North America. Asbestos and termite damage. Not to mention the rust from a leaking roof and being in the Philippines near salty air. Some very very rough expamples in those videos and pictures. At least they’ll be easy to spot with their white painted stocks.
Apparently some are as-new while others are really really rough. CMP typically inspects every rifle before selling them as the various grades they offer.
When they had Korean, Danish, Turkish etc. M1's, they would typically reduce the rough guns to parts, inspect the parts, refinish the ones that had surface rust, scrap the parts that were out of service grade spec, and build up "new" rifles from the parts. This is how in the past they offered guns iwth new Citadel or Criterion barrels, new wood, etc.
I have no doubt they will sell a lot of very nice rifles to people from this batch, either "as issued", or rebuilt.
CMP is officially affiliated with the Defence Logistics Agency, which is the civilian procurement arm of the pentagon. So when CMP rebuilds a rifle they use US Government gauges, the US Technical manuals, and a large volume of USGI parts. In a way, it's been rebuilt by the US Government (or an agency that operates on a US Government congressional mandate) - hardly a bubba endeavour.
When they had Korean, Danish, Turkish etc. M1's, they would typically reduce the rough guns to parts, inspect the parts, refinish the ones that had surface rust, scrap the parts that were out of service grade spec, and build up "new" rifles from the parts. This is how in the past they offered guns iwth new Citadel or Criterion barrels, new wood, etc.
I have no doubt they will sell a lot of very nice rifles to people from this batch, either "as issued", or rebuilt.
CMP is officially affiliated with the Defence Logistics Agency, which is the civilian procurement arm of the pentagon. So when CMP rebuilds a rifle they use US Government gauges, the US Technical manuals, and a large volume of USGI parts. In a way, it's been rebuilt by the US Government (or an agency that operates on a US Government congressional mandate) - hardly a bubba endeavour.
and they'll never be allowed to leave the US again. Only US citizens can purchase from CMP.
Does something stop them from being imported to Canada, post-cmp purchase? (Assuming paperwork is done of course)
While that's probably true in a legal sense, the reality is that any CMP consumer can sell their M1 to anyone in the USA they like. At best, after the first re-sale, the new owner will have no obligation to the CMP and won't know or care where it came from. Also, in the past, CMP has sold batches of rifles to retailers when they needed operating cash and sales were slow. Those retailers then sold the rifles without CMP conditions.
If you buy virtually any M1 on Gunbroker, there is a good chance you are getting a CMP garand, whether advertised as such or not. Most privately owned M1's in the USA originated at CMP these last 70 years, it's the official way the US government sold these rifles to its citizens.
People import US M1's from the states all the time and some are for sure CMP guns.
This would be a possibility thru a licenced exporter/importer.
There's speculation that the Turkish surplus Garands which a couple of Cdn dealers are now selling in the $2150 range are "leakages" from the CMP. I'd agree with that because the CMP is the only entity which can legally import Garands into the US via US Army channels these days. I don't know that any Cdn importers are directly plugged into foreign sources these days.
You're right, CMP doesn't export. However further down the chain, as Claven mentioned, it's fair game.
