M1 Garands, new imports?

[Stevo]

The Shooting Edge in Calgary just got some Breda Garands in. They've been restocked and rebarreled to 7.62 NATO. They look nice but they're listed at $1399.

No idea where they came from.

[sdh1911]

Recently I've been told by a local importer here in NJ that these M1's will be handled through the CMP, meaning they did not end up in the hands of the importers for some reason. It is all very suspicious as to why this has happened!-SDH

[P. Greaney]

The way the so-called "lend lease" works is that the items must first be offered back to the U. S. Government through our appropriate agency. In the case of firearms (small arms) it is usually the U.S. Army. They determine if there is a need or use for the items, If so they accept delivery/return. They then distribute the items to other agencies.
If the agency in question determines that there is no need for the items then that country's government that received the "loan" may dispose of the items as long as it is in accordance with the orginal agreement.

[big bear]

The Shooting Edge in Calgary just got some Breda Garands in. They've been restocked and rebarreled to 7.62 NATO. They look nice but they're listed at $1399.

No idea where they came from.

German refurbished Beretta and Breda garands, 308. New barrels/wood Got one, looks new, unfired. I need a very good reason not to go shoot it next sunny day!

[campperrykid]

This made me wonder:

The Shooting Edge in Calgary just got some Breda Garands in. They've been restocked and rebarreled to 7.62 NATO. They look nice but they're listed at $1399.

No idea where they came from.

Have any of the Italiian Typo II Garand conversions to 7.62x51 reached Canada? One way to ID the variation ( other than markings ) is that the Typo II barrel , op rod , stock , and lower handguard have been shorten by roughly a half inch. I have two Garand Typo II parts kits from sometime around 2002 to 2003. One has been running for years after assembly on a CMP reciever. The other is in a box (unassembled ) with a 2nd CMP reciever.

[Ramboueille]

Recently I've been told by a local importer here in NJ that these M1's will be handled through the CMP, meaning they did not end up in the hands of the importers for some reason. It is all very suspicious as to why this has happened!-SDH

The only M1 rifles that are returned and handled by the CMP are still and always were US Army properly loaned via Foreign Aid. Breda and Beretta M1 rifles/receivers were never US Army property or US made. If a country includes Beretta or Breda receivers among their Foreign Aid rifles upon their return to the US Army, then it's purely accidental.

Take the words of importers with a grain of salt, they lie and spread rumors all the time.

[Dave Waits]

Just read the first page but, the rifles are coming from The Republic of South Korea. They just got State-Dept. permission to import 100,000 M1 Garands and a bunch of carbines.