Yes, didn't know about those. I was still playing with BB guns and homemade napalm in the 60's. Of course M-1 imports would have ended in 1968 with the GCAicon of 1968, and that provision being lifted in 1986 at the cost of no more giggle switches. Not a good trade IMO. The rifles that you mentioned had to have been sucked up and socked away. From 1972 to 1986, I can count on one hand the number of M-1's I saw for sale at gun stores and the few gun shows I could attend in my teens.


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You skipped a couple: the first was the Interarms import of LL guns with Britishicon Proofs. They were everywhere in the 1960s. Then came the Police Sales by firms like SEA selling M1s from Honduras and Guatemala. Cops bought them cheap and resold them for a fat profit. I helped several local officers do it until ATF declared that they had to buy them with checks from the town.