Congrats! I have always wanted one of those as well.
It looks to be in great shape as well.
Congrats! I have always wanted one of those as well.
It looks to be in great shape as well.
There were overrun guns sold to the public, but there were also Customs guns sold to the public under some type of "exchange sale" program. Apparently Lew Horton bought a bunch of them before the Clinton administration put an end to it.
The CS-1's with the "2M" stamp, like the one I just bought, got that stamp at Glynco.
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Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
I don't have it in hand yet, hopefully I'll have it this week. I'll post some more pics when I get it.
From what I've read, the guns were sent to Ft. Benning to get the extractor star problem fixed, but by that point the damage had been done and many considered them unreliable. Personally-owned weapons were allowed then, so that's what most people went with.
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As a result of PD transitions from revolvers to autos and from 9mm autos to 40 autos there were large numbers of surplus LE guns on the market cheap in the 1990's. The 1994 assault weapons ban incentivized trading 9mm guns with pre ban mags for .40 guns with restricted mags. Some of these LE surplus guns then started showing up at crime scenes.
As a result, the Clinton administration issued an executive order mandating transfer to other government Agencies or destruction as the only means of disposing of surplus Fed LE firearms. It was subsequently codified into the Code of Federal regulations at CFR Title 41 §101-42.1102-10(5) (c).
There is currently a petition to modify this and allow retired fed LE to purchase their duty weapons.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/l...-their-weapons
My understanding is there were two recalls on the CS-1's resulting in the M stamp and then the 2 stamp, AFAIK all recall work was done at S&W and all guns were sold via S&W.
Mine has the same stamp.
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I have two 4 inch CS-1 686s. I passed up the 3 inch models because I was young and dumb. I don't remember what was going on at S&W at the time quality wise but I had a model 17 that I bought to learn how to shoot a handgun well. That gun froze up and got sent back to the factory. The dealer told me the factory was swamped fixing 686s (hence the m stamp) and just gave me a new 17 that Les Baer did an action job for on.