Korean garand threads have been merged together, Link. Please do not start new threads pertaining to the same subject.

From the man himself:

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Originally Posted by Orest

The rumors, reports, articles about Korea "selling" Garands and carbines have been circulating for at least ten years. About nine months ago the Korea Times once again reported that they would be selling Garands and carbines to a US importer. The CMP is not a firearms importer and we would not have any involvement of any kind in anything that may happen with these Korean rifles and carbines if they were “sold” to an importer.

The only way any rifle or carbine from any country can find its way to the CMP is if the country returns “loaned” rifles back to the US Army - at no cost to the US. When that happens, the CMP "may" possibly receive some of those rifles. According to the recent articles, Korea did not plan on returning (transferring) any rifles to the US Army, but planned to “sell” these rifles to an importer. We do not have any standing to investigate the reports from Korea or any actions the US government may have taken as a result of those rumors.

I (speaking for myself) do not know for a fact if the sale is being blocked, and more importantly why it is being blocked (if true). It may simply be a question of current ownership.

Thanks for understanding that we do not have any first-hand knowledge and why CMP will not get involved in this in any way. This issue will get sorted out in good time.

All Korean threads from now all will be merged into this thread. Up to you if you want to sort through the rumor mill. No reason to have this spread over 6 forums and 22 different threads.

A Washington Post article on the Korean garands that mention the CMP. Hope its ok to do this, not that want to introduce politics into the forum but destroying all of those garands and carbines would be a crime, wonder how many are IHC?Obama's backdoor gun ban