Quote Originally Posted by cplstevennorton View Post
Both the Army and Marines actually had auctions of scrap receivers at different points of time post WWI through about the 20's. But then they noticed civilian companies weren't using them as scrap steal, (what the govt thought they were being sold as) but were actually building functional rifles out of them.
These are the very ones we're arguing about shooting today...and they were assembled long enough ago that they appear correct in many cases.