US won't allow S Korea to sell surplus M1 carbines here.

[TomD]

Headline from the Strategy Page: M1 Carbine Banned In America (link to article)

Pisses me off because I missed the boat on these years ago and want one now. My Dad carried one of these.

First paragraph below:

M1 Carbine Banned In America
by James Dunnigan
January 30, 2012

After over two years of negotiations South Korea has finally received permission to export antique (over 50 years old) American military rifles back to the United States. South Korea has been given permission to sell 87,310 M1 Garand rifles to American collectors. The U.S. still refuses to allow South Korea to export 770,160 M1 Carbines to collectors in the United States. That's because the M1s can only hold eight .30 caliber (7.62mm) bullets while the carbines use a magazine (holding up to 30 rounds). The M1 Carbine can also be easily modified to fire automatically. While not outlawed in the United States M1 Carbine imports are usually banned.

[Eat Beef]

Not only is this old news, it's misleading. Carbine imports aren't banned. Hitlery made some sort of State Dept. fiat that said the KoKos couldn't sell their carbines OR Garands to us.

BTW, the CMP ran out of carbines less than a year ago, and their prices are still roughly the same as they were then, which ticks me off 'cause I'm sitting on a pile of them.

WRT the KoKo rifles, I've never been very worried about them, their stuff is usually in terrible shape, and this batch is reportedly worse than usual. Century looked at them and declined to even make an offer, that should tell you something...

[Silvergun]

This has been ongoing for awhile now. Also, the CMP wont be selling any of these rifles. Here is a response from the CMP regarding korean M1 Garands.


"GARANDS FROM KOREA: Once again our phone lines and email boxes are flooded with requests for information on the purchase of M1 Garands from Korea. The Korea Times reported last week that the U.S. Government had approved Korea's request to sell 86,000 M1 Garands to U.S. importers. CMP is not a firearms importer and if these rifles are sold to U.S. importers, they will not come to the CMP or be sold by the CMP. We will not have any information on the sale of these rifles.



Thank you for your continued support.



Orest Michaels

Chief Operating Officer"

[Desertjack]

This is actually an improvement if the Garands are allowed to be imported and sold. As already pointed out though the S. Koreans rode these hard and lord knows what they look like; I remember looking at the Blue Sky imports at Woolworths in the 80's and thought they looked like crap, so if these are worse...

Also there are supposed to be a large number of 1911s they would like to sell here as well.