M1 Garands, new imports?

[stoggie]

I heard from my local shop that they are expecting a bunch of Garands from their importer. They expect them to arrive in a month or so. They have no idea where they are being imported from. Does anyone know if they are Dutch, Italian, etc. ???

My imagination is running rampant and hoping they are NOS originals in the grease lend-lease from Russia! Yeah right....

They said based on their cost, they will be starting from $700, and up depending on condition.

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[Claven2]

If it's true, they won't be Dutch. Could be almost anything else though.

[tiriaq]

Speaking of the Dutch, my son in law's father used a Garand and an M-1 carbine during his military service in the Netherlands. He quite liked them.

[sdh1911]

I've been hearing the same thing. A friend of mine said that over 100K would be coming into circulation, I can't say for sure when this is going to happen, but, I'm saving up-SDH

[Claven2]

If 100,000 come into circulation, I doubt they will get $700 for them. In fact, it should markedly drop the going rate as availability will exceed demand, at least for a time.

[Stevo]

100,000 Garands = 99,000 for US market (if importable) + 1000 for the Cdn market.

[stoggie]

Cannot import Garand into the US. Lend lease cannot come back into the US. At least thats what I was told at auctions when worrying about US folks bidding on US firearms. Didn't Century Arms (Montreal) get busted for that? Claven2 says something about it here (or at least thats how I took it): https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=347

Also, if they are from Russia, they for sure won't be seen in the US.

[Stevo]

I think the US import rules depend a lot on whether or not the rifles were sold or lend/leased. If they're lend/leased then the US Gov. never lost ownership of them and they can be re-imported. Didn't the last batch of CMP Garands come from Greece? Please correct me if I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Besides, you'd have to sell them for $99.99 if you wanted to move that many in just the Canadian market.

[stencollector]

Besides, you'd have to sell them for $99.99 if you wanted to move that many in just the Canadian market.

And even at that price, most Cdns would expect 500 rounds of ammo on pingys and in bandoleers.

1000 rifles is a lot in our market.

[Claven2]

The problem is that US rules won't let rifles back into the states if the taxpayers lent or gave the rifles to someone for free. They had to be SOLD to another country (taxpayers compensated) before a 3rd party can re-import them.

If they were never "bought off" then they can only come back if the foreign gov't gives them back and they then get sold through CMP.

Some rules may have changed though as last year a whack of Savage No.4's went back to the US, where before it was not allowed.