(April 25, 2022 at 11:56 am)tackattack Wrote: Why buy the newest when there's bound to now be a flood of M-16s coming to market? Gotta' get them military crates at wholesale you know.
I wonder if the CMP will be getting them?
To those not in the know CMP = Civilian Marksmanship Program.
From CMP website -
The CMP traces its direct lineage to 1903 when Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt established the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice (NBPRP) and the National Matches. From then until 1996, first the Department of War and later the Department of the Army managed the program that became known as the “civilian marksmanship program.
Obsolete military weaponry is sold at very reasonable prices.
M1 Garands and M1 carbines were available at cut rate prices for those who shot the rifle course under CMP direction.
It would be logical to do the same with m16' s that are rebuilt as semi auto only - or AR15s that were issued. I know we had several AR15s at my first unit. We did shipboard boardings and full auto is frowned on in a steel drum where ricochets are a reality....
