GunBroker.com, out of state, private sale. It was $1100. (corrected price, memory was hazy!)

It was made in 1943, reparkerized in the 50's through the armory - a lot of them went through that and it has the armory mark on it.
Most important thing is slide matches frame matches barrel according to the books (for a Remington Rand build).
It also has the correct mags. I got the impression that a lot of guns that went through the armory were mixed up (i.e. they'd refinish slides, frames, etc separately and put them all together regardless of manufacturer). So this gun is unusually good for an armory gun.

At the time WWII USGI collector guns were about $3k and up. (original condition, not parkerized)

It does have a nice amount of holster patina so it did get some daily use after it was reparkerized.
I had to replace the barrel link, and I used original wax wrapped surplus USGI parts.
The slide to frame fit is not all that bad.

I got a nice 1942 holster for it, but sadly I think despite good treatment that it has shrunk enough that it probably isn't usable in any practical way (very tight fit).

But it is a shooter and not a display gun, and I've never been shy about shooting it.
It is a gun that I am always happy to let my friends shoot.

My only struggle has been wanting to change to stag grips to match Longmire's 1911.

In the books Longmire served in Vietnam, and carries his Army 1911, so it is certainly possibly he carried a WWII era 1911. They even re-used the WWII holsters and dyed them black.

But in the end, I'm keeping it just as I received it.

You just need membership in a cmp affiliated organization.
Proof of marksmanship can require a signature, but your CPL will suffice. There are also a few other routes to the marksmanship requirement.

Proof of marksmanship is strange considering the whole point of the program is to foster marksmanship - seems catch 22ish.

Be careful with high pressure loads in your sweet war fighting 1911. Colt didn't start hardening the slides until the mid 1960's. Earlier model slides are prone to breakage with heavy use and high pressure loads.

Pricing, Cooper said, is expected to be between $800-$1,000 for shooters.

“It’s hard to say exactly, but a good guess will be around $1,000 minimum,” he said. “One reason for this is that the 1911 is a very valuable pistol. Even though they may be shot out or busted up, we don’t want them falling into the hands of people who will just leave them in a glove box. We want a perceived value — more of an heirloom. We don’t want them considered a standard sidearm. All we need is to have someone commit a liquor store robbery with one and then we’ll be held accountable.

“Their values might be a little bit less, but we want some sort of threshold to prevent anyone from coming in off the street and plunking down $400. I would guess they’d sell for $800 to $1,000 but they’ll go by grade like our M-1s — service grade to collector grade. The rarer ones — ones with all matching numbers or ones carried by celebrities or heroes with provenance, will go to our auction house.”

It would be kind of cool to have one..... if you want a clapped out old 1911A1 with providence.
There's a project for dreadi.

To all CMP constituents:

The CMP Board of Directors has discussed at length how the sales of 1911s would be handled, if the CMP were to ever receive them from the United States Army.

Some preliminary decisions:

Decisions concerning the grade and pricing of the 1911s will not be made until inspection has occurred of a substantial quantity which will take an estimated 150 days post receipt.
All laws pertaining to the sale of 1911s by CMP will be strictly obeyed.
Potential purchasers will have to provide to CMP a new set of documents exhibiting: 1) proof of U.S. Citizenship, 2) proof of membership in a CMP affiliated club, 3) proof of participation in a marksmanship activity, 4) a new form 2A with notary, 5) successful completion of a NICS background check, 6) a signed copy of the 01 Federal Firearms License in which the 1911 will be transferred to.
The CMP customer will be required to complete a form 4473 in person and successfully complete another NICS check by the recipient FFL holder before the pistol can be transferred.
Qualified CMP customer will only be allowed to purchase one 1911 per calendar year.
No 1911s available in the CMP stores, or on line, only mail order sales.
CMP will set the date in which it will accept orders for the 1911s. The date will be posted to the world.
Orders will only be accepted via mail order delivery.
Orders will only be accepted post marked on the date or after, no early orders.
Once CMP receives 10,000 orders, customer names will be loaded into the Random Number Generator.
The Random Number Generator will provide a list of names in sequence order through a random picking process to CMP.
Customers will be contacted in the sequence provided by the Random Number Generator.
When the customer is contacted a list of 1911 grades and pricing options that are available will be offered for selection of one.
As CMP proceeds down the sequenced list less grade and pricing options will be available. Again, this done completely random.

Mark Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
Civilian Marksmanship Program
www.thecmp.org

The CMP sent this email today:



The 4473 background check thing confuses me . . . does that mean that you need to have a NICS check run on a non-existent gun and submit proof that you passed, and THEN you go into a lottery to buy one, and once you buy one then you need to pass another NICS check when the gun actually arrives?

Seems weird.

Do these qualify as C&R? Looks like they wouldn't sell them to an 03, but in other circumstances?

If they are more than 50 years old, then yes they are C&R.

To be recognized as C&R items, 478.11 specifies that firearms must fall within one of the following categories:

1. Firearms which were manufactured at least 50 years prior to the current date, but not including replicas of such firearms;

2. Firearms which are certified by the curator of a municipal, State, or Federal museum which exhibits firearms to be curios or relics of museum interest; and

3. Any other firearms which derive a substantial part of their monetary value from the fact that they are novel, rare, bizarre, or because of their association with some historical figure, period, or event.

Well it looks like the CMP is set to price gouge these things by possibly 40-100% above their actual value...

https://www.thegunwriter.com/23661/cmp- ... plus-1911/



That rat bastard is openly admitting he is going to charge more than their worth to intentionally discriminate against lower income gun owners...

Here is the contact info for this clown: (419) 635-2141

We want a perceived value — more of an heirloom. We don’t want them considered a standard sidearm.