Does anyone know how many rifles were cut up for scrap?

[Randy in Arizona]

Does anyone know how many M1, M14, 1903, 1903A3, & 1903A4 rifles were cut up for scrap?

IIRC it was not just the Klintoon administration doing that sort of blasphemous deed.

 

[Onmilo]

The general Idea floating around the gun community is that the 'Guvment chopped up perfectly good guns'.

I have seen and handled the stuff turned in for DX disposal and can assure you the stuff we sent for disposal was nothing more than scrap.
The guns would have been considered dangerous and unsafe as a firearm.
they could have been used as demilled wall hangers albeit very, very rusty wall hangers.

Servicable stuff is sold or given to allies as Military assistance, some is kept as secondary standard to be issued, believe it or not, to civilian citizens should that need ever arise.

Many, many thousands of firearms have been destroyed.
They were destroyed for very good reasons.

If you want to get mad about something get mad that our Government gives firearms away to countries who then sell them to other countries and pocket the profit.
THAT is the gross misuse of our tax dollars in my opinion.

 

[Randy in Arizona]

Well lets look at a few sources - -

Now I will admit that I could be wrong about the crunching of rifles, But here are a few other quotes and sources for you to peruse:

M14 Slotted Handguard, Presentation Grade, minor crack, w/clip - Can a grown man cry? You might find out when you see one of these Presentation-grade slotted handguards, the orginal HG for the M14, yanked off brand new rifles before destruction.

Fred's M14 Stocks Site

Among the guns destroyed since President Clinton took office: M1903 Springfields, M1 Garands and M1 and M1 Carbines--including rare variants--plus Model 1911A1 pistols, top-grade target rifles and even unfired .22 training rifles. In just 10 days last July, the federal government turned 19,000 .22 rifles, including new-in-box Kimbers, into junk.

NRA Link

Initially the US Armed Forces destroyed large quantities of these newly surplus weapons including 479,367 M14 rifles in 1993-94 and roughly 350,000 M16A1 rifles in 1996.

Small Arms Survey (end of page 3)

the Defense Department assured Senators that the guns being destroyed were "unserviceable" -- which they didn't realize might mean only a
missing sling swivel.

In fact, some of the guns were brand new. A consultant to a salvage company called me almost in tears; he said he had opened cases of Colt BAR rifles with high gloss blue and hand-cut checkering. Despite the $200 transfer and registration tax, or even if internally altered to only fire semi-automatic, they would have brought a fortune from collectors.

Despite our best efforts, they were destroyed.

But some 600,000 Garands were saved.

Neal Knox Report of 30Dec95


Nuff said.

Off topic,but interesting!
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