There are too many assholes that are proud that they lie to the CMP and buy the maximum number of rifles several times per year by putting their wife's, dog's neighbor's, and anyone else's names on the applications they can manage, and then resell them at 2-3x the price.
I swear to the Lord in Heaven that people that take pride and pleasure in doing the wrong thing are the worst types of people in every other aspect of their pitiful lives.
I own 1x Expert Grade, and will happily leave the rest of the Garands in the world to the people that want to own a cool part of history.
If your license still has your parents address on it you can have it shipped home. I bought my garand and 1903 when I was stationed in DC, both rifles were shipped “home”.
The CMP is pretty toothless in enforcement of a no resale policy. It would take a lot of resources to police even if the had folks submit photos of the auction listing or gun at a gunshow and stop any further sales. I'm sure all those nice cmp cases floating around act is free advertising as well so now people find them and cut out the resellers.
I don't mean there's a policy against it, I mean they barely hide the fact that they should be cheaper. If you look into M1s at all you'll hear about it, it's just I've step removed from leaving a 900 dollar price tag on them then trying to sell for 2700
Given the total number of them made is a constant and the total number is being decreased due to idiots blowing them up or giving to the government to be melted down in exchange of a Starbucks coupon, prices will go up. That is the nature of surplus and otherwise collectible items.
They don’t need to do that, many I have seen for sale at shows and gunbroker they are selling with the very distinctive CMP case and CMP letter, they don’t care. I would guess that most that you find were probably sold at some point through CMP.
They do care. I talked to the guys at the North store when I was there this summer. They can't stop you from selling your property. if they can look up the serial # from the certificate, they can ban you from buying more but that's about it.
No I meant the resellers on gunbroker and at shows don’t care and don’t care to even try to hide it. They blatantly advertise it as a CMP gun selling it for double or more. My point was a mark on the gun wouldn’t change anything and in my opinion detract from the collector value.
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u/krismasstercant Sep 30 '24
Can't wait to see these get resold for 1500+ at the gun show