Buy the new US military rifle before the troops get them

[tackattack]

Some are bound to get sold to foreign militaries, but yes the CMP will probably be getting a bevy of wonderfully reliable weapons soon.

[popeyespappy]

I own 4 CMP Garands. The last time I checked you could still buy rack grade Garands for $650 and expert grade, essentially service grade with a new barrel and stock, for $1100. Wait times were 6-8 weeks.

CMP received a bunch of 1911 pistols a few years ago, but the first lot sold out quickly. No word on when more may be available.

I'll bet my paycheck for a year against a box of stale doughnuts that the CMP will see zero military surplus M-16's. If that was going to happen it would have happened a long time ago.

[Anomalocaris]

I thought tanks had gone to adding ceramic armor, then reactive armor.  Both have been partly circumvented.  Without either, tanks are just easy targets.

adding ceramic is just like adding steel but at 40 % the weight.   ERA (explosive reactive armor) can be defeated by tandem warhead missiles and RPGs thar uses a pre-charge to prematurely trigger ERA, and a main charge to defeat the armor exposed by the premature ERA.

The most modern approach is active defense where the tank use a onboard millimeter wave radar ti detect incoming missile, RPG, or even a tank shell, and then automatically fire a device that passively or actively intercept the incoming projectile at some distance away from the tank enough for the warhead explosion to be harmless to the tank.   the US, Israel and china appears to have such systems deployed on in the field,  the Russians, Germans and southKoreans appear to have a similar system exhibited at trade shows,  but not deployed on large scale.

[onlinebiker]

I own 4 CMP Garands. The last time I checked you could still buy rack grade Garands for $650 and expert grade, essentially service grade with a new barrel and stock, for $1100. Wait times were 6-8 weeks.

CMP received a bunch of 1911 pistols a few years ago, but the first lot sold out quickly. No word on when more may be available.

I'll bet my paycheck for a year against a box of stale doughnuts that the CMP will see zero military surplus M-16's. If that was going to happen it would have happened a long time ago.

Not really.

If I am not mistaken - they either sold them overseas or scrapped them for parts for the M4s....

If they retire them all - it will make a glut of them.

It makes more sense to sell them than scrap them for metal....

[popeyespappy]

I own 4 CMP Garands. The last time I checked you could still buy rack grade Garands for $650 and expert grade, essentially service grade with a new barrel and stock, for $1100. Wait times were 6-8 weeks.

CMP received a bunch of 1911 pistols a few years ago, but the first lot sold out quickly. No word on when more may be available.

I'll bet my paycheck for a year against a box of stale doughnuts that the CMP will see zero military surplus M-16's. If that was going to happen it would have happened a long time ago.

Not really.

If I am not mistaken - they either sold them overseas or scrapped them for parts for the M4s....

If they retire them all - it will make a glut of them.

It makes more sense to sell them than scrap them for metal....

I'm not sure what's not really here. I'm sure they have scrapped a shit pot full of the older M16's, but the US government has been selling M16's for years to class II FLL's. Parts kits made from these rifles are available from multiple sources. I've seen them for sale with everything except the 3 hole receiver including the auto sear, trigger and selector for less than $500. Complete kits like that are hard to come by these days, but they are available every now and then. Here is a beat to hell one with everything except the lower and the auto sear. $1875 is not exactly what I would consider a good price but...

What I am doubting is that the CMP will ever get any of them.

[onlinebiker]

I hope they do... I like the old triagular forestocks....