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Limited editions do appreciate sometimes, but unless they remain unfired and in pristine condition, they rarely increase enough to outweigh years of ownership and the memories that come with passing them down.

My initial research indicated that H&K and Benelli ended their relationship to import Benelli products into the USA in 1997-1998 timeframe. Digging deeper I saw that H&K was involved in the military contract to import the new Benelli M4 in 1999, which is why I deleted that post as I had discovered it was incorrect after further research. There's nothing to indicate that any USGI contracted Benelli M4s/M1014s have ended up in civilian hands. In your OP you were inquiring where to find "an HK import for a Benelli M4" as if there's any USGI surplus Benelli/H&K imports (1999 DoD contract) "on the civilian side". Then you post "I never once said (the 1999 military procurement contracted Benelli M4s imported by H&K) were on the civilian side." No you did not, but you implied that. I'd love to see any proof at all that there are any surplus USGI Benelli/H&K import M4s which ended up on a Form 4473. So kindly show us where and how the 1999 Benelli M4s imported by H&K have been made available to civilians as surplus. The 1999 DoD procurement for Benelli M4s was for Benelli M4s with full length magazines and C stocks. The ban on more than five round magazines and C stocks (not folding stocks) on imported shotguns intended for civilian sales goes back to the gungrabber era, 1989-1994. Sales of the unneutered Benelli M4s with FL magazines and C stocks to us lowly civilians is generally prohibited (especially surplus sales by .gov or .mil). I'd love to see where one ended up in civilian hands, those things do occasionally happen.

From the research I did H&K and Benelli ended their relationship to import into the USA in 1997 or 1998, however research indicates that H&K was involved with the military procurement contract for the M4 in 1999. According to research the DoD didn't release specs for the M4/M1014 until May of 1998 and Benelli submitted examples of their newly designed M4 to the DoD in August of 1998 (pretty short development time, may have already been in the works). There is nothing to indicate that H&K was involved in the importation of M4s beyond 1999. There's absolutely nothing that I find that any of the H&K military contract M4s ended up on 4473s. Perhaps you can point to some record of this. A photo of a stack of obvious USGI Benelli M4s without any context whatsoever is meaningless. What's your point???

There's no context to that photo. It appears to be USGI inventory. No individual has that many M4s and they certainly wouldn't be treating their collection like that if someone even did have that many, nor would a dealer treat his inventory like that.

You come here less than a week and already acting like a dick. If i did know where one was, i would'nt tell you.

My recommendations: Discontinue Ghost loading Replace Carrier Latch Remove 5 shot extension, reinstall OEM magazine tube and OEM Spring Why: Some/most extension builders are not revising the Magazine Springs to meet requirements to not only function with the product line but this in consideration with the Gun Manufacturers Carrier Latch Design and strength. Most Carrier Latches I replace, many per year have one thing in common, extended magazine tubes. I build M4 with magazine extensions as well using the correct parts and calibrated magazine springs. Stranger Danger and Steve Rose are great resources on this forum how to do this correctly.