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I remember as a kid you could buy M1903A3s and M1917s from the Civilian Marksmanship Program for a song. Those WWI/WWII supplies ran out about the time Clinton did.

For the past 20 years or so its just been M1 Garands left (I picked up a couple back when they were around $350-$400 and wish I had bought more) with the occasional other martial arm sold at auction as old stocks were handed over by the Army– typically from guns returned from overseas (a bunch of Bavarian police marked M1 Carbines came back several years ago) and by disbanded veterans groups (sadly, the Greatest Generation is going the way of the Doughboys).

Well it seems CMP has picked up enough M1 Carbines from old Army stocks to release some to the public starting Feb. 1.

They will have guns made by Inland, Winchester, IBM, Quality Hardware, Saginaw, Standard Product and Underwood in two grades: Service for $685 each and Field for $625 each, with free shipping.