Look into history at the DCM. You could buy ONE M1 Garand in your lifetime. Yes it might be a very pristine example at a stupid cheap price, but it might have taken a year or 2 to get. There was NO push to get these guns into civilian hands and bring a mass of new shooters into the sport. The CMP was created as a self funded corporation of sorts whose goal was to get surplus military rifles into civilian hands and promote their sporting use. Orest Michaels headed up that effort for many years and did a superb job of getting the organization built and finding and recovering loads of surplus and lend lease rifles as well as parts, like getting not only rifles but a couple ship loads of 30-06 HXP ammo that the Greeks no longer wanted. The whole community of collectors took off when the CMP made these stocks of rifles available to us and out of government hands before they were destroyed. The old DCM had no desire to do that and probably could not have considering their charter. The number of rifles (and now 1911 pistols) that have been moved from government control to citizen ownership is astounding and i would welcome an actual count, but the CMP for obvious reasons keeps that number to itself