JFK's M1 Garand up for Grabs

[Devlin]

Wasn't sure if this should go in the for sale section or not (mods feel free to move if required). Nice piece of kit if you have the cash...



Historically Significant, Documented U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy U.S. Springfield Armory National Match 1959 M1 Garand Semi-Automatic Rifle

http://www.rockislandauction.com/view_item.aspx?aid=41&iid=205462

 

[Gibbs505]

OK, who actually is selling this? Is Ted, his brother, running out of cash?

 

[Cocked&Locked]

OK, who actually is selling this? Is Ted, his brother, running out of cash?

Nah, mitchells mausers is branching out. Next week they'll have Ronald regans '03 springfield too

 

[ilovepotatos]

John Sukey sure has run out of things to buy.

 

[Silverback]

OK, who actually is selling this? Is Ted, his brother, running out of cash?

According to the pictures on the auction Mr. Arthur G. Kaplan owned it in 1970, only 11 years after JFK bought it, though JFK really didn't get to shoot it much.

 

[Strangeday]

I'd pay $50k for it but not 100....

 

[Cocked&Locked]

I'd pay $50k for it but not 100....

I'll sell you a garand for 50k!, you can't prove Kenedy never shot it.......

 

[AR15meister]

I would rather have Oswald's gun.......

 

[Bart212]

I wonder if we could find out which Garand JFK ever had, if he did have a Garand in the war. That would be worth more than a post war own Garand.
Does any one know how we can find out who had which Garand during the wars?

 

[Geoff B]

JFK was a navy officer and probably had a 1911-A1.

 

[beltfed]

Fack the Gun, I want the PT boat he skippered.....

 

[sidney]

I would buy the two AR-15's Colt or Armilte gave JFK which he shot them and afterwards wrote a personal letter to the army to adopt them as new miltary issue.

 

[Geoff B]

Fack the Gun, I want the PT boat he skippered.....

Some assembly required. It was run over by a Japanese destroyer and sank.

 

[sf]

JFK was a navy officer and probably had a 1911-A1.

He also had a 37mm anti tank gun he wielded onto his MTB deck.

 

[Strangeday]

They have been looking for the parts of his PT 109 for a long time.....

 

[t-star]

they've recoverd a torpedo tube, handle, and one of her engines- i just googled it- probably not much else as the hull was wood and she was smashed starboard at speed by the destroyer-

 

[beltfed]

Well crap....I'll settle for the Norinco copy then....

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Holy snot.

Times sho 'nuf have changed. Imagine a Democrat president taking a rifle into the White House now...

 

[t-star]

i don't know if it's still done, but presenting a rifle to the president goes back at least as far as old abe- maybe further- probably for an endorsement, similar as what we get as 'ARMS MAKERS FOR HIS/HER MAJESTY "or some such thing- some folks put a lot of stock in that sort of thing, like 1 of 1000

 

[x westie]

JFK was a navy officer and probably had a 1911-A1.

In the movie PT 109 where actor Cliff Robertson portraited JFK it shows him with a .38 S&W revolver,....the US navy issued large numbers of .38 victory revolvers chambered in the .38 special as opposed to the British Commonwealth .38/200

I noticed in several wartime pictures of PT Boat crews with M1 Carbines..Thompson smg and of course the .45 auto pistol.

In the book PT 109 it mentions that the crew landed on the island after the sinking of their PT boat with a mixed assortment of .38 revolvers...45 auto pistol and 1 tommy gun.