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Take it to a competent gunsmith and get it inspected. Magnaflux or some other "penetrating dye" test. Maybe X-ray. It may not be cracked. M1A recievers are cast, you may (finally) be noticing a defect. If it is cracked - and you can prove the number/type (reloads invalidate most warranties) of rounds fired - it might be worth contacting Springfield. They may/may not be willing to advise you. If it's unserviceable you can replace the reciever (moderately expensive but potentially worth it), sell it for parts (I'm interested, let me know what you want for it) or put it in the back of the safe and "Fugidiboutit". Just remember, it's still a firearm so use appropriate care in your disposal plans.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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