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I've read different things about these and how they weren't distributed commercially or through police departments, etc.

How did most of them become transferable? I thought you guys might know the story of your own M3/M3A1 or have gone the FOIA route, or just know in general.

 

They certainly aren't common like M16's and some others. Were they mostly troop bring-backs or what?

 

Thanks for any info/opinions.

 

John

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M3s are far more rare than A1s in the NFRTR. A1 just went in the RIA auction. fully transferable Ithacas are the most scarce as transferables. Many were imported and DEWATed during the active DEWAT retail years in middle 1950s. These SMGs are still in active service in reserves and possibly elsewhere. GM examples are not hard to find for sale but often priced over market. Then there are the Medea repro Greaseguns which are usually overpriced. At least most of these have now been worked up to be reliable and cosmetically attractive. Generally they were poorly constructed and cosmetically crude.FWIW

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Is it true that if the gun has been rewated and transferable, it will NOT show Guide Lamp as the manufacturer on the F4 (provided it is a GL gun of course) but instead will show the rewater as the manufacturer?

 

Thanks, John

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Mine was purchased by a New Orleans Police Department officer from International Armament Corporation on March 24, 1964. Because he used department letterhead, it transferred to him on a Form 5. I have copies of the receipt and the form. It was a live gun. I bought it from his estate. It was a former British Lend Lease gun and still has the magazine release guard modification and black paint. Bob is currently refinishing it. (How's it coming, Bob?)

 

Dan

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Mine is an early Guide Lamp #0014252 amnesty registered. I was told it was a World War II bring back but I dont have any documentation to prove it.
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Mine M3 GL grease gun was a British lend lease gun painted black , but I was lucky they did not weld that guard over the Magazine release button , I know that weld sometimes messes up the lettering above & below the weld .

The grease gun went to a arms dealer , then the Birmingham ,AL. police department bought a whole bunch of them & transferred to two people before I bought it from a fellow in Virginia ., so I was the third person to get it.

Shoots perfect & looks great .

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