I'm very happy that these guns are going to be offered to US citiziens. I think it's a rip-off to charge a starting price of $1000 (who knows what the tops ends will go for?) when they got the guns for nothing. The CMP is a BUSINESS. The line about promoting marksmanship went away a LONG time ago as they raise their prices for EVERYTHING every year. I was happy to pay $675 for my first Garand. $730 for my second. Reasonable price. $1200 or more for a service grade 1911? Out of line.

And please don't tell me ALL of the money from sales goes back into the shooting sports to encourage marksmanship. It's a human run company. Somebody in upper management is doing QUITE well.