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Posted: 9/13/2002 8:47:11 AM EDT
| Are all available M60's surplus? What does a M60E usualy cost? |
| As a Department of the Army employee, I can tell you most "surplus" M60's should have been demilitarized and sold for scrap. The demilitarization is done with a cutting torch in such a fashion as to render the gun unusable. Some slip through the process, and some were sold/given to other countries and have been imported back into the US. The manufacturer(s) may have also made some in semi-auto and sold them. |
| The US Government contractor was SACO Industries, a division of the Maremont Corp, and included SACO Lowell Shops. They made some M60s which were released to the public having been registered before 1986. A very few were stamped M60E3. I suppose they must have been technically "surplus" in that the government must not have ordered enough for them to sell all they had. I think there are several hundred of these. Rock Island Armory also made some, but they were not the Government supplier, so these guns are commercial to start with. |
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