
M1 carbine parts they had, left over from years of assembling and selling GI carbines. Rock Island Armory used the tooling to make cast receivers in the mid 1980's, for assembling the surplus Surplus and Rock Island Armory in Colona, IL in the early 1980's. Sarco sold the tooling for the casting of these receivers to Reese The tooling for the National Ordnance and Alpine cast receivers from Rimer Casting in Waterville, Ohio.

Bob Brenner liquidated the surplus left at National Ordnance that was of no value to him, to the large surplus wholesaler and retailer, Sarco, in Stirling, NJ. Shortly thereafter National Ordnance vacated their building at 9643 Alpaca St, having a phone listed at the Federal Ordnance building next door at 9649 Alpaca inġ9. Many surplus GI parts were placed into parts kits, for retail sale as replacement parts.Īround the time of the unexpected death of Walter Rayno in June 1975, Bob Brenner of Federal Ordnance acquired the holdings of National Ordnance by buying out Rayno's widowĪnd Mrs. During the first few months of 1974 the remaining assembled National He had made the mistake of taking several of the selective fire weapons home.Īt the time of Arnold's death, National Ordnance was having financial difficulty and almost bankrupt. Wyant LaMont was unable to own any part of a gun business due to legal problems he incurred while working with Wife of Wyant LaMont, National Ordnance's general manager. He left 50% of National Ordnance to Walter Rayno, the machine shop foreman, and 50% to Jessie LaMont, Post WWII Commercially Manufactured M1 Carbines (U.S.A.)Īrnold's death was anticipated and prepared for.
