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Actually, I think it's kind of cool that they're making these available to those who purchased their carbines. As for your email, it's also possible that the person who responded had no idea whether these were available or not, as it's likely that these haven't been entered into their inventory yet and some random guy keying in email responses has no idea what's in the pipeline or what might become available, other than what pops up on his screen when he searches ...

Got curious about these Danish/Italian Garands and did a little quick research. Apparently, when Denmark surplussed the remainder of their non-US owned rifles, Century International bought the majority of them. A few were directly imported into the US, then their import certs on the rest were denied (guessing pressure from commercial manufacturers, which got a lot of imports denied over the years). So, Century sent most of these to Canada, where a lot were them dissasembled, receivers stripped, and the rest sent on into the US as "parts kits". SARCO, at the time, had a huge inventory of USGI receivers, so a person could buy the Century parts kit for $250, add a SARCO receiver for $100, and assemble a working Garand. Later, Century figured out there was more money in actually building the rifles back, so they bought up receivers and re-assembled the complete rifles after importing them to themselves in the US. An interesting little tidbit of milsurp history ...

I'm certainly no Garand expert, but it looks like this rifle has a wartime Winchester bolt in it ...

I've seen them priced at that, but I'm not sure how many actually sell at that level ...

Importation of milsurp rifles from Russia has been banned for years. In addition to the older bans, the Bush II, Obama and Trump administrations all added various individuals and companies to the "do not do any business with" list, a lot of whom control companies involved with arms and ammunition. Ukraine has some stuff left, but getting it out is very difficult, for one European export rules are much tighter now than in the past, plus they have this little civil war going on as well. A few years back, Russia announced that they were in the process of scrapping a lot of their older stockpiles of arms, likely many of them were old Mosins that had deteriorated over the years and weren't usable anyway. The endless wars throughout the middle east also suck up much of whatever is left and available, both weapons and ammunition stores. The firesales of WWII era rifles and ammo that Ukraine, the former Yugoslavian states, Romania, et. al. had in the late 90's and 2000's were made possible mostly by the collapse of their governments and the power vacuums left in the wake, allowing enterprising former Communists to sell everything that wasn't firmly cemented in place (and some things that were). None of those conditions are likely to be repeated, and with both our, and their current rules, bans, treaties and general ill-will towards each other, further sales are equally unlikely anyway ...

Very true. You can even argue that importing huge quantities of milsurps, such as those brought in during the late 50's through early 2000's, artificially depressed prices below what actual market conditions would have normally dictated. After those shipments dried up, prices returned to what "normal" would have otherwise been. Now, years after the big surges of post-WWII weapons stockpiles have been exhausted, we're seeing large increases in prices as rifles wend their way through the secondary markets. We won't see anything like that again, as virtually all military organizations around the world adopted the use of so-called "assault" rifles in the postwar era, those will never be imported as surplus weapons here. WWII left an unprecedented supply of bolt-action rifles lying around unused after the cessation of hostilities, that situation and the laws of the times represented an historical opportunity for the importation of surplus weapons into the US. The unique set of circumstances that allowed that to happen won't be repeated ...

1300 probably qualifies as a large shipment of imported milsurps these days. Most of the weapons still managing to trickle in now and then are assembled overseas by roving buyers, who buy up individual or groups of rifles from private sellers or other sources and bundle them into one shipment. An example is some of the Swiss rifles that are still occasionally imported, buyers roam through Switzerland buying up older rifles passed down by retired (or deceased) militia members. Once they have enough rifles to make up a shipment, the buyers send them to the states. Often times, we're talking dozens, not hundreds of rifles coming in, so a lot of 1300 is pretty sizable these days. The era of full containers being brought in with thousands of old milsurps is over ...

It's a tough job being right all the time, but somebody has to do it ...

They'll go fast. Where else can you find primary market M1's these days? As you're well aware, every time a new (old) supply of milsurps shows up, prices go up accordingly. Look at what happened with M39's a couple of years ago when Classic landed the last of the Burns hoard, prices jumped by 50% or better practically overnight. As always, things will settle back some once the initial impact of a fresh supply wears off, but for now, it's feeding frenzy time ...

You can always go with the do-it-yourself route: In which case you can have a little fun with it:

No, but if you more safes, the average sales tax will be much less ...

FIFY

While you're there, you can pick up plenty of jerky, t-shirts and one of those bug zapper things ...

Sounds like an excellent argument for forced sterilization ...

Getting old ain't for sissies. I can also promise you, it doesn't get any better either ...

It's probably not quite the mower that the older Tank series was, as they were built as commercial mowers and this series is more of a residential unit, but for a homeowner it will most likely give really good service for a long while. They build these a few miles down the road from where I live, so I see a lot of these and other Cub products around here. Own one of the ZT series with the conventional steering wheel myself ...

From that pic, the answer to your question isn't shooting it ...

Kudzu can survive drought, wildfires, poisons, scalping to ground level and nuclear winter. Resistance is futile ...

Nyet, tovarishch. In Soviet Russia, is said that the mules kick like Mosina ...

I've said that for decades, but manufacturers pretty much abandoned development of both the gun and shotshells years ago. I traded my last one (Rem 1100) several years ago and haven't owned one since. Of course It's rare for me to shoot any shotgun now, but I always contended that the 16 ga was the perfect balance between weight, recoil and ballistics, at least when loaded properly ...

I'm not surprised, it's my understanding that the smallbore shotguns have been quite popular for several years now. I don't have much sympathy for those who are lusting after these, as my favorite all-time shotgun caliber was 16 ga, which have pretty much disappeared entirely ...

Except you're not a bonded importer (at least that's my assumption), those are the folks bidding for ammo and components. They also have to contend with shipping, customs (both out of Europe and into the US), various laws and regulations, etc. In addition, as I pointed out, a lot of ammo and components are found in countries which are not very friendly with the US, most of their products aren't for sale to us at any price. Finally, primer manufacturers have long term contracts with ammo manufacturing facilities (and are often owned by ammo companies), those orders get filled before any additional supplies are listed on the open market. Supplying relatively small quantities to resellers for Gunbroker, or reloaders in the US, is a long way down the priority lists for these suppliers ...

I'm not sure which country pioneered this strategy first, but both quickly mastered it. I've always thought it would have been interesting to see French forces take on an Italian army, without interference from allies who actually fought ...