The thing that gets me, is that some of those political decisions on not allowing them to come into the U.S. was based upon pure wrongful speculation that they would "fall into the wrong hands" and become a dangerous liability. What a crock! How many times, I would like someone to "please count them" that some bad guys robbed banks or went on a killing spree with M1icon Garands, or M1 Carbines. I mean come on man, what a lame excuse, Dont they mean to say instead thier afraid the ATF will sell them to someone in Mexico? Even that would still be rediculous, I doub't they'd want them anyway. We're the ones that crave them, take them to service rifle matches, teach our children the great sport of high power shooting, and some of us could use the parts to say the least. I don't know why they would ever worry about Garands and Carbines that are older than I am, many of which have seen thier better days for sure, and many may require additional work to be top notch again. They cant see, or don't care about the real reason the DCM and CMPicon needs to have access to the rifles of times long ago. The government had a chance, years ago, and actually did care. Back then rifles were cheaper and easier to come by. The programs that trained civilians were up and running just great. They are still up and running, only now the CMP is not run by Uncle Sam, but we still need access to the other Garands and Carbines just as we did before, and for the same reasons we did before. I just don't understand the negative politics attatched, anyway, I got that off my mind, and hope that I didn't start an arguement, that wasn't my intention at all, so I appologize ahead of time if i came off on the wrong foot here.