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    Default Marines buying 1911s again

    See here:
    http://www.mcall.com/business/hc-col...,1358991.story

    Interesting point of note from the Morning Call article:

    In recent years, the Marine Corps has been building its own .45-caliber pistols at a facility in Quantico, Va., using parts from existing inventory of Model 1911 pistols and other commercial parts, said Barbara Hamby, spokeswoman for Marine Corps System Command, which orders guns for the Marines. The government, however, hadn't bought new handguns from Colt for decades. That changed this month with the first order of up to 12,000 Colt pistols, starting with 4,036 right away.
    This is also being reported on by Fox:

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/28...liber-pistols/

    Cool to see that we're buying American arms again; it seems many of the more recent contracts have been to Beretta or FNH.
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    Default Re: Marines buying 1911s again

    Somebody should report this thread to a mod to merge it with the other thread. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

    I am interested in this as well, though.
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    Default Re: Marines buying 1911s again

    Where's Soberbyker with the how-to link?
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    Default Re: Marines buying 1911s again

    No respectfully, I'm a dumbass.

    Thanks for the heads-up: thread closed.
    "Political Correctness is just tyranny with manners"
    -Charlton Heston

    "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
    -James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 46.

    "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." [sic]
    -John Quincy Adams

    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
    -Thomas Jefferson

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