533 M45A1 pistols were decommissioned without ever being issued — packaged for long-term storage from the start, and returned to Colt in that same unused condition. Because all 533 are believed to have spent their entire service life in the same storage program, their individual FOIA custody records are expected to be effectively identical.
Rather than file 533 nearly-duplicate requests with the USMC FOIA office, we requested one representative serial — 05647EGA — and use its results as a stand-in for the entire population. Enter your serial below to confirm it's part of the NIB release and view that representative documentation.