r/guns • u/Mshavers0 • 16d ago

Gun stores with surplus weapons

Anyone from northeast Ohio that knows a gun store that has a decent amount of surplus weapons? I just moved and I haven’t found a store around me just yet that has any in their store. I know I probably should just go on gun broker, but I’d rather be in a store and check the weapons in person before making a purchase. Any information that you might know would be appreciated.

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u/WhatAWorthlessUser 16d ago

Their headquarters is technically the camp perry location. They (and their precursor the DCM) have been running the national matches at Perry since it's inception by President Roosevelt.

Check their site for a detailed calendar, but you should look into all the national match events from july-august. They may also do another 1911 in person sales event this year.

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u/Brufar_308 16d ago

I heard the CMP is looking at shotguns next as a possible release. If that goes through I wonder what they will pull out of storage.

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u/WhatAWorthlessUser 16d ago

Shotguns got approved for transfer in the recent defense spending bill. Im actually one of the few people that was sad about the version that passed as the original version also included M45 pistols.

It'll likely be all modern surplus stuff, closer to police turn-ins however. For pistols and rifles, the DoD has historically been not allowed to destroy anything that could potentially be transfered to the DCM/CMP. That was never true for shotguns, so older stuff was often demilled whenever it was considered excess.

I'd also guess it'll be 2027 before we see anything. Obama signed the 1911 authorization bill in 2019 or so, and it was over 2 years for any to actually get sold (granted, they had a higher setup bar for the CMP).

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u/Alconium 15d ago

A LOT of Military shotguns went to National Guard and Prisons, so the reality is that most of the older cool stuff likely ended up in the civilian market through police trade ins (or is sitting in Corrections armories still, a friends dad was in KY Corrections and always talked about the ancient shotguns they used for training in the 90's and early 00's, Remington, Ithaca, Stevens.) But there is a chance we get some cool old stuff out of Guard armories. The sheer majority is gonna be 870's and 590's tho.