Congress passes spending bill that includes selling milsurp 1911s through CMP

[harley128]

One of the CMP officials at the OKC Gun Club earlier this year told me that he "guesses" starting prices on these will be in the $1200 to $1500 range.............Again, that was only his opinion............He said those looking to steal a bargain are gonna be disappointed.

 

[Sanford]

CMP 1911 Information (includes clarifications from the original email).

The latest information on the 1911's will be posted on this page.

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December 5, 2017

The CMP Board of Directors has discussed at length how the sales of 1911s would be handled, if the CMP were to ever receive them from the United States Army.

Some preliminary decisions further clarified:

1. Decisions concerning the grade and pricing of the 1911s will not be made until inspection has occurred of a substantial quantity which will take an estimated 150 days post receipt.
2. All laws pertaining to the sale of 1911s by CMP will be strictly obeyed.
3. Potential purchasers will have to provide to CMP a new set of documents exhibiting: 1) proof of U.S. Citizenship, 2) proof of membership in a CMP affiliated club, 3) proof of participation in a marksmanship activity, 4) a new form 2A with notary, 5) a signed copy of the 01 Federal Firearms License in which the 1911 will be transferred to.
4. A NICS background check will be performed by CMP on the customer to assure the customer is eligible to purchase prior to shipment to the FFL licensed dealer. The customer must receive a "proceed" from NICS prior to shipment of the pistol to the FFL licensed dealer.
5. The CMP customer will be required to complete a form 4473 in person at the FFL dealers place of business, successfully passing a NICS check performed by the FFL holder, before the pistol can be transferred. This is a second NICS check performed on the customer.
6. Qualified CMP customer will only be allowed to purchase one 1911 per calendar year.
7. No 1911s available in the CMP stores, or on line, only mail order sales.
8. CMP will set the date in which it will accept orders for the 1911s. The date will be posted to the world.
9. Orders will only be accepted via mail order delivery.
10. Orders will only be accepted post marked on the date or after, no early orders.
11. Once CMP receives 10,000 orders, customer names will be loaded into the Random Number Generator.
12. The Random Number Generator will provide a list of names in sequence order through a random picking process to CMP.
13. Customers will be contacted in the sequence provided by the Random Number Generator.
14. When the customer is contacted a list of 1911 grades and pricing options that are available will be offered for selection of one.
15. As CMP proceeds down the sequenced list less grade and pricing options will be available. Again, this done completely random.

Note: 1911 type pistols purchased from CMP cannot be transferred to 03 FFL (curio and relic) license. BATF and the United States Army prefer the second background check be performed by a "store front" FFL dealer. Each customer purchasing a 1911 type pistol from CMP will be subjected to two NICS background checks, one performed by CMP and the other performed by the FFL dealer the pistol is being shipped to.

Mark Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
Civilian Marksmanship Program

 

[SMS]

I expect they’ll charge bottom of the market prices - not as much as some folks ask for their USGI 1911’s on the open market, but the CMP won’t be giving them away, either.

As for manufacturers, I’m guessing they’ll be akin to Garand makers - all being offered, with the most prolific makers being the most common, etc. Just keep in mind the vast majority of these pistols will be mix masters. You can bet there won’t be any Singer 1911’s offered as part of this sale, nor the all-original 1911’s. Those will go to auction!

One thing is for sure. With a purchase limit of one per year we aren’t going to be able to wait for you to do all the leg work and sell the ones you don’t want to us!! Lol.

 

[Perplexed]

One thing is for sure. With a purchase limit of one per year we aren’t going to be able to wait for you to do all the leg work and sell the ones you don’t want to us!! Lol.

Ha. I’m not even sure I want one of those 1911’s. I’ve seen plenty and still don’t feel that “tug” to buy any. Sorry, you’ll just have to get them from someone else

 

[harley128]

don't ya'll know that Perplexed is a Garand kinda guy?

 

[RugersGR8]

http://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/cmp...XCYEn&sc_llid=1163855&sc_eh=e64dee6ebec1d5c51
The CMP Starts Release of 100,000 M1 Garands!
By Dave Dolbee published on February 27, 2018

 

[RustedBeef]

How much do you think one would cost?