CMP 1911 pricing is announced

[LVSteve]

This is CMP's idea of a joke?

 

[eveled]

This is BS, combat vets ought to get one for $1. These pistols
are WW2 production. I don't know how much they cost govt,
but a new 1911 Colt was $100 at gunshops in 1969. Maybe they
should let Post Office handle sales, they could manage to go in
the hole on the deal.

I agree vets should get the gun of their choice to take when they go home. No need to distinguish between combat vets, and non combat vets. They all did what they were told to do they all served our country and they all deserve our thanks.

 

[max]

I will gladly take 2 if they can get me the one I had in Vietnam and the one my dad had at the Battle of The Bulge.

 

[chud333]

I'm with ya' Ladder13
It's for the once in a lifetime deal for me. If i can get
a nice condition service grade for 1200 i will get one.
Imagine if they only release 200 or 2,000 the first year?
"Some" folks would pay real good money 5 years or so
down the line for a first year release. Nature of the Beast.
You heard the man say maybe 10,000 total.
That's not many for the military and .45 nuts out there.

It'll happen just because they were the first 1911's released
by the CMP in how long ?? They would be great because you
could "play" with them and not diminish the value if you
bought it looking to sell or trade (down the road).
A clone is just a clone.

 

[kbm6893]

A grand for a very nice one, maybe. A grand for a beat to hell one? No thanks. And where's the history? Did it storm the beaches of Normandy, or guard dirty underwear in a Quonset hut at Fort Dix?

PT Barnum was right. There is a sucker born every minute. A service grade with almost new barrel M1 Garand for $730 is reasonable. But at least field grades are cheaper.

 

[ladder13]

It's only money to me, I didn't spend my life wasting money drinking and smoking with nothing to show but yellow drawers and bad breath.
I'll have something to treasure.

 

[Cyrano]

I wonder if specific makers will be available. I'd sure like to add a Rem-UMC to my collection. I think a Singer or a US&S would be out of my price range.

 

[alwslate]

My first two service grade Garands cost me $400 apiece if I remember
correctly. Later on I bought a really nice 1903A3 for $400 plus a couple
more rack grade Garands for something less than $400 apiece but I
can't remember exactly how much right now. I fully expected to buy a
1911 if they were ever released and I know the guns I bought are
worth more today than what I paid, but...a beater 1911 for $1,000?
I've made it this far without one and I guess I can make it the rest of
the way.

 

[BigBill]

At $1,000 in the beginning will they go higher? Or lower? What is rack grade condition wise?

My dad was an alcoholic and a gambler. He had nothing to show. But he was happy. I'm 180 degrees different. The most I ever spent on one gun was recently to replace one I traded in a series government colt 1911a1 in nickel. These are rare in excellent condition. I replaced all but one gun I traded in that's a colt Python. Someday when I'm ready maybe I'm just way to frugal.

 

[BigBill]

My first two service grade Garands cost me $400 apiece if I remember
correctly. Later on I bought a really nice 1903A3 for $400 plus a couple
more rack grade Garands for something less than $400 apiece but I
can't remember exactly how much right now. I fully expected to buy a
1911 if they were ever released and I know the guns I bought are
worth more today than what I paid, but...a beater 1911 for $1,000?
I've made it this far without one and I guess I can make it the rest of
the way.

I been looking for a beater, truck gun, 1911a1 for a while now.
The new AO ww2, SA USGI-mil spec, my norinco are better than the beater I'm browsing for. I may try a Tisas next something under $400.

 

[reddog81]

I'd bet field grade will be under a grand and service grade will be around a grand. It will be tough for them to sell 10,000 a year when you have to jump though all the CMP hoops and have no idea what you're receiving if they start at over $1,000.
The pricing at the beginning might be a little difficult because of the pent up demand but 10,000 a year for 10 years straight is quite a few guns.

 

[Drm50]

10,000 ain't very many in the big picture. Divide that by 50 states= 200 per state, that's spreading them pretty thin. I don't
know anything about CMP business rules about pricing, must
be the only profitable branch of government. I remember under
Carter Administration, I think, that government was paying $12@
to have M1 Garands destroyed. Govt program sucks since they
Did away with DCM. I won't buy anything off CMP, I guarantee
nobody is going to buy the one I carried.

 

[Joe Kent]

Guys, why the debate, if you don't want to buy one, don't. I have bought several rifles from both DCM and CMP and have always been pleased. Will I buy a 1911, maybe, but it is nice to know that I can at least have the opportunity rather than those historic guns being destroyed like so many others have been. All the best, Joe.

 

[paul s]

Smart $$ buys as many of the CMP 1911's you can. I like my $$ very much and try to buy things that hold value and appreciate. CMP is a very good thing, my first M1 cost $165.00 from DCM and at that time you where allowed to buy one per LIFETIME! We got it good, stop whining.

 

[ladder13]

The CMP is obligated by law (statute?) to sell at market prices. That being said, they will have no problems selling them - not as quickly as if they were $500, but they will sell. Watch out for the sky-high auction prices on the nicer ones.

It's actually in the US Code


https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/40732

 

[alwslate]

I been looking for a beater, truck gun, 1911a1 for a while now.
The new AO ww2, SA USGI-mil spec, my norinco are better than the beater I'm browsing for. I may try a Tisas next something under $400.

The Rock Island 1911 is on sale locally for $352 starting
tomorrow. Maybe in your area also if you look.

 

[Kanewpadle]

I don't understand the whining. Don't buy one!

Where else can you find a gun that was part of history at a decent price? Yes, $1000 is a lot of money. Imagine if they went straight to the highest bidder so they could sell them on Gunbroker for $2000 each?

If I wanted one, which I don't, I gladly give $1000 for a piece of history.

Many of us vets qualified and/or carried them on duty. Is a $1000 to much to ask to bring those long past memories back?
I don't think so.

Years ago I met a WWII vet at a gun range. In his 80's, hands shaking badly, gun wavering from one side to the other. He could still hit his target at 7 yards with the Colt he brought after the war. He let me shoot it. It rattled. The sights stunk. The bluing worn. But when the gun barked, it did so loudly, reliably, and accurately.

That old man was proud to have it and proud he could still shoot it.

Now translate that to a still living vet or one of their sons or daughters that remember "ole slab sides" and now have a chance to own one.

It's not always about the money.

 

[Drm50]

KP, you are exactly right, it ain't about the money, it's about
the principal of the thing!

 

[Watchdog]

A grand for a very nice one, maybe. A grand for a beat to hell one? No thanks. And where's the history? Did it storm the beaches of Normandy, or guard dirty underwear in a Quonset hut at Fort Dix?

PT Barnum was right. There is a sucker born every minute.

There are lots of collectors and shooters who are members of this forum.

I reckon we're all "suckers" because we're willing to spend our money on something we want...is that right?

Good thing I don't listen to what a bunch of people around here say or I'd never buy another gun long as I live.

Well cross one of my wish-list guns off. It would be nice to have a 1911 from the CMP, but the $1K starting price is a turn off.

Mark my words, $1K will end up being a bargain.

Just for an example, there's a WWII Remington Rand for sale online somewhere. It's in decent shape, even though it does have a noticeable "idiot scratch" and some other marks on it. It also has what collectors refer to as a "Type 2" slide, although it isn't mentioned in the description. You have to know what you're looking at. They're somewhat hard to find. Some people have apparently noticed the slide, because this pistol will definitely sell for well over $1600, because it hasn't even closed yet.

There's no telling just what might come up among all these CMP pistols.

 

[ladder13]

Who cares where the gun "was"? If it spent it's time in some storage locker in Virginia or on the island of Saipan, I want one.

Where was this $730 Garand "with almost new barrel"? Maybe Gomer Pyle carried it at the Artic Circle.