{"id":1093,"date":"2009-09-23T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2020-03-29T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T02:43:51","slug":"watch-the-collector-value-of-m1-rifles-drop-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/watch-the-collector-value-of-m1-rifles-drop-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the collector value of M1 rifles drop now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South Korean government is planning to sell off its large holdings of M-1 rifles and carbines, according to this BBC News<\/a> report:<\/p>\n

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South Korea has come up with a novel way to boost its defence budget — by selling a vast stockpile of old Korean-war rifles to collectors in the US.<\/p>\n

The guns were originally sent to Korea as military aid, and some were also used during the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

For more than five decades, they have been kept mothballed in warehouses.<\/p>\n

Most of those on offer are M1 rifles — a weapon once described by US General George S Patton as “the greatest battle-implement ever devised”. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I recall when the Canadian Forces retired the FN C1 rifle . . . the government freaked at the thought of thousands of “assault rifles” being sold to civilians, so they changed the regulations to move the FN into a more restricted category (which most casual gun owners didn’t qualify for).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South Korean government is planning to sell off its large holdings of M-1 rifles and carbines, according to this BBC News report: South Korea has come up with a novel way to boost its defence budget — by selling a vast stockpile of old Korean-war rifles to collectors in the US. The guns were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7,13,663],"tags":[49,279,281],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-history","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-guns","tag-korea","tag-koreanwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55962,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/55962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}