As most of you know, we recently restarted sales in our surplus M1911 operation after an eight-month interruption. With the sales resumption a few weeks ago, we’ve had many, many questions about our M1911 Program. Frankly more emails and phone calls than we can respond to without interfering with our production and sales effort which none of us wants. In an effort to respond globally to all these inquiries and maintain transparency with our supporters and customers, the following are some key points about the current status of the program.

Received Orders:

  • Round Four. We have about 1,300 – 1,400 remaining orders to process and fulfill from Round Four. Our CMP M1911 staff is focused on processing orders and shipping pistols – processing about 1,000 pistols a month. You can do the math, but this pace will result in all Round Four orders being fulfilled by about mid-April. In terms of sequencing and work-flow we have our sales associates working these in the prescribed random number sequence but also in batches. Therefore, it is possible that exact random generated number sequence might not occur but this will only be by a day or two.  We’ve seen some of you express concerns on the Forum about this but it really is a non-issue. 
  • New Orders. As you know post-Round Four we are not using “Rounds” or random generated numbers. We will fulfill orders based on the date of application receipt. We expect to start fulfilling new orders received in 2025 in the late April timeframe. All orders will be processed in the order that they were received.  Do keep the orders flowing in – more to follow on this below. 

Order Status:

This webpage will include a table that shows approximate fulfillment windows based upon the receipt date of your order and our sales velocity/pace. Again, fulfillment windows provided are approximate but will give you a general idea.

  • If something is missing from your order packet, our CMP M1911 staff will contact you for that information when we pull your order for processing. 
  • The lifetime limit remains at two pistols per person. This control is codified in a Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of the Army and the CMP. We will seek relief from this as our goal is to raise it to four, and we will keep you well informed. However, we don’t expect a change (if any) prior to this summer.
  • For those of you who are first time M1911 customers you can now purchase two pistols at the same time.
  • For those of you looking for something special, we expect to put some of the more rare M1911s or M1/M1911 matching serial number pairs on our auction site later this year. If you are interested in something like this you may want to plan accordingly in terms of the lifetime limit. I acknowledge that many of you are already at the sales limit and as stated earlier we are working on that. 

Availability of M1911s/Inventory Status. Surplus M1911s are a historic, rare and finite commodity, however, right now our inventory is reasonably deep. We have an adequate number of pistols to fulfill current and potential future orders I believe through 2026, with many available grades. Of course, that depends on future demand and as you might suspect orders are in fact rolling in fast. That said, the message I’m trying to relay is we have a significant inventory on hand. We also expect to receive another shipment of M1911s from the Army in the coming weeks. For ordering details, please visit https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/1911-information/. 

In closing, I apologize for the delay in responding to your inquiries. I appreciate your support for this program and also your patience as we work to organize and work through the significant number of recent orders. I hope this email and the steps I’ve outlined will help with transparency as we work to fulfill your orders. 

If you have any further questions that are general in nature, please respond in the fields provided below so that all of you can benefit from the question and answer.  If you have a specific question concerning your order we will do our best to answer via email at cmp1911@thecmp.org.  We thank you again for your support of the M1911 Program and, in turn, all of CMP’s initiatives to enhance the future of marksmanship.

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is a federally chartered 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation. It is dedicated to firearm safety and marksmanship training and to the promotion of marksmanship competition for citizens of the United States. For more information about the CMP and its programs, log onto www.TheCMP.org.

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