[mrerick]

I have visited the CMP facility in Port Clinton, Ohio (which includes the retail store, and their offices for managing competition). It's very well run.

I have never been to Anniston, Alabama but understand that they also have warehouse facilities there.

They are very well setup to store a volume of incoming items, and then evaluate, restore/repair and then sell them at a relatively slow pace - which they manage.

We are coming toward the end of the M1 Garand stocks transferred by the US Government to the CMP so I expect that space is opening up in the warehouses, and the armorers that have worked on M1 Garands and Carbines are ready for their next specialization.

When the CMP grades firearms, they are reasonably conservative. I have bought "Field Grade" guns that I couldn't tell from the next higher "Service Grade". When I got a M1 Carbine (Service Grade) that was inaccurate - probably due to a barrel deformation - they replaced it without any problem.

I think that they may tend to extend that level of support more easily for the higher grade guns.

I hope that they do proceed reasonably quickly to making graded pistols available.

Needless to day, when they become available these pistols will sell quickly - and take some time to ship as the CMP wades through the avalanche of orders...

Marc