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Quoted: They are components of a class 3 weapon. The .gov will NOT surplus those out on the market.
When was the last time you saw USGI uppers for M16s and M16A1s in the surplus market?
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SWO_daddy,
You're very mistaken on this. Where do you think the M16A1 uppers that CDNN, Kiesler's, and KY Imports (just to name a few) are coming from. They are mil surp from the A1's that were upgraded with the A2 PIP kit for the most part.
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Unfortunately, Str8shot, it is you who are mistaken. Due to the US (read: Klinton) signing the UN Small Arms Proliferation Treaty in 1997, and then Klinton's Executive Order clarifying how this treaty was to be enforced by the military, weapons, weapons parts, and ammo are no longer surplussed for civilan sales (other things are affected too; BDUs and other military clothing is no longer surplussed). All weapons components now have to be demil'ed. This means that barrels and receivers are cut up, magazines are crushed, and a lot of ammo is burned. There are plenty of active duty military, including armorers, here that can confirm all of this.
The uppers that CDNN is selling are uppers and guns that the US military sold or gave to other countries as military aid, who have then turned around and sold them back to the US to get hard currency. In other words, they were exported and reimported. This, and to a much more limited extent, the CMP program, are the only *legal* ways to get surplus US military weapon parts. There are also stocks of parts purchased before '97, but those stocks have been greatly depleted. That's why you don't see parts everywhere like you used to.
Short of a major change in policy, there will never be a surplussing of US military M16 parts to the public.
-Troy