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Originally Posted by BJoe
Hmmmmmmm. Your AYD, and my AYW were delivered to civilian shops. My later BAU was delivered to Customs Service.
So instead of the LEO's getting their guns and the remainder going to civilians, with this it was the opposite?  |
Hmmm is right...Good question.
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Originally Posted by 18DAI
...As to surviving original "issued" CS-1s, SmithNut again provides much interesting information. Approximately 2500 686 CS-1s were released through the Sales Exchange Program before then Attorney General Janet Reno ended that program and ordered federally owned service weapons destroyed rather than sold. Additionally some 686 CS-1s were returned to the factory for service/repair and were released into distribution rather than being returned to the Customs Service.
It is an educated guess that perhaps this account for the relatively frequent appearance of 686 CS-1s bearing the 2M stamp and still having original matching boxes.
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maybe mine could be part of that group (???)...and I noticed that Grousehawker's (post # 26), with a AYW prefix, was shipped the day after.