Rumour of M1 Garands coming soon
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maple_leaf_eh
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Sgt Striker said:
No, from prowling another forum I have the impression that Springfield Armory Inc had tried to investment cast new receivers for the temporarily flush supply of parts from ex-Danish Garands. They had many problems.
(This makes my head hurt.) Denmark disposes of rifles. Ones that were loaned after WWII go to US. Ones the Danes bought from US and Italy go to Canada. Border is closed to non-US Garands, so Lever has thousands at $150 ea. Many were stripped to export parts to the insatiable US market. Breda and Beretta receivers get stuck in Canada, but not permanently.
Some sharpie realized if he shipped stripped Italian-contract recievers (marked with the Danish FKF crown) from Canada to Australia, magically remanufactured them and exported them to the US, they became BATF legal. The amount of reworking seems to have been stamping a new name and refinishing. Springfield picked them up and assembled new-ish Garands with FKF and Springfield Armory markings.
RobSmith said:
The US has some goofy laws regarding re-importation of lend-lease (if that is the correct term) arms. As mentioned above, Lever Arms in Vancouver ahd racks of them for $149 about 11 years ago.
I am glad I got one, and pissed that I only got one, not a dozen.
maple_leaf_eh
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
The US border is closed to (one of Clinton's legacies) firearms not of a particular narrow definition. This includes USGI Garands that were purchased by foreign governments. I guess this included a certain percentage of the Danish Garands. Those that the US Civilian Marksmanship Program wouldn't claim, had to go somewhere else. That was to Canada.
RobSmith said:
I've had a IHC Garand for a couple of decades.
I had a Norc M-305 for about 5 years. Fun rifle, was great to wail 20 rounds out of it back when it was "legal". Accuracy was fine.
Garand is a true "rifleman's rifle". Could out group the Norc any day, easily.
Sold the Norc. Will NOT sell the Garand.
There is NO comparison between a Garand and a Norc M-305.
Not badmouthing the Norc, it's a great bargain. But a Garand, it ain't.
maple_leaf_eh said:
They were actually banned from import after ww2 as the American domestic firearms producer convinced congress that it would dammage thier ability to produce firearms if the makert was flooded with cheap surplus guns.
The gun control act of 1986 made MARKING all imported rifles on the barrel or reciever makeing thier value MUCH lower
also if the importer CANNOT prove the rifles were paid for and NOT lendlease they cannot be imported IF you can prove they were paid for importing is possible.
Clinton had ZERO to do with this law
the CMP just sells and grades the rilfes from war stocks or RETURNED by governments denmark, carbines,garands Greece, garands 1903's
CanAm said:
So........is there any chance of getting any??????? I'd do an advance pay booking order for a small amount (a case or two), and I'm sure I'm not the only one. There are guys who want some who have more cash than I do, and before you know it we're talking decent numbers.If you did a quick survey I'm sure you'd see a half-million rounds pretty quickly. The beauty being it would pretty much be pre-sold.
$500 is the glass celing number. If these things sell for more than that they're going to move awful slowly. Used garands on the board alone are ~$650 and those ones are of historical significance as they're typically dated from WW2.
Sigh, at one time I had 6 of those Garands from Mr. Lever. Like a fool I sold most of when I sold my old house 6 years ago and had to put everything in storage. Now down to only one. Looking to get more though!!!
