Geez, you guys get "special treatment" or what? It took the gov't three months to process my paperwork before sending me the OK. Then I sent them $400 and it took them another three months to send me the rifle. But it came around Thanksgiving last year, was well worth the wait, and gave me something else to be thankful for. I could have gotten a comparable Garand for maybe $550-$600 at a show without the wait and background check/fingerprint fun, but getting one straight from Uncle Sam . . . there's something too cool about that. What a glorious rifle. Gen. Patton was right.