US Army wants new hand gun

[CDAT]

When the US Army turned in there old 1911's does anyone know what happened to them? Maybe we could do what the Army wanted back in the 80's and just refurbished them.

[stormlion1]

I believe they were either sold at auction to Law Enforcement agency's or foreign governments, Stockpiled away inside of armory's and forgotten about, or destroyed. I remember back in the mid-90's we still had some still in the armory rusting away.

[.45cultist]

Given to Turkey, sold to clubs through DCM/CMP, 300,000 destroyed at the Alabama arsenal, along with a lot of M14's. Just another reason to dislike the president of the time!

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by CDAT

When the US Army turned in there old 1911's does anyone know what happened to them? Maybe we could do what the Army wanted back in the 80's and just refurbished them.

We still had 1911s at my first duty station as Stewart, but I didn't see one that wasn't beat to shit. (Sorry for my language, but it's appropriate in this case.) That was mid-1980s. I couldn't see them refurbished then, let alone now.