Inland RRA Rebuild, DCM Or Not?

[DaveHH]

The issue is that Flicker will only take JPG files this is on a Word doc.

I was doing some CC research and came across an issue from 2010 #359. The carbine of the month is a proven DCM sale carbine, a Winchester. Marty Black says it is new as built, it has a flip sight and type 2 band. Apparently they did sell some carbines that were new off the shelf and not rebuilt.

This carbine interested me because it was made the same day as my Winchester.

[Johnny Peppers]

Not sure of the date, but Red River Arsenal (RRA) became Red River Army Depot (RRAD), and during the NRA/DCM Carbine sale in the 1960's you could arrange to pick your Carbine up at Red River Arsenal. They were still in the trapezoid shaped box when they brought it out to you.

As to the "UNSERVICEABLE" designation, the Model 1911 and 1911A1 pistols sold through the NRA/DCM in the 1960's were also classified as UNSERVICEABLE, but they were being maintained, and parts were being ordered for them. A small number of Remington Rand 1911A1's that were new in the original factory shipping boxes were sold during this time.

[firstflabn]

I have it on a word document format and can't download to my photo server.
I says that the pistol: "This sale is final and the US Govt retains no obligation or responsibility for malfunction, repair, replacement or exchange"

That wording is identical to that shown on a shipping document dated 1957 in Brophy's '03 book. And on the next page is a 1961 dated invoice with the same wording. For us non-lawyers, the different phrasing is equivalent and in both cases was probably enough to satisfy that era's government lawyers.

Would be interesting to find the 'unserviceable' definition in the document Kuhnhausen excerpted, but even that wouldn't mean that the standard was consistently applied.

In the TH example Kuhnhausen used, even his experienced eye didn't spot the misaligned hole until he looked down from the top and saw the sear wasn't laying where he knew it should. Would everyone doing these inspections have noticed that? Inspecting for four or five attributes really requires focus - doing a general checkout of a complex system is very difficult without a detailed checklist. Pretty sure that didn't happen here. Might even have heard the phrase 'good enough for government work' uttered a time or two.

[Johnny Peppers]

Quite a few of the NRA/DCM pistols sold in the early 1960's were the Model 1911, and all that I saw were fresh from rebuild. They may have been in storage for a few years, but they had not been issued since rebuild.