Left Wingers in Congress Equate Marksmanship Training with Gang Banging [More]
Just like the scorpion in the fable that couldn’t stop killing, they can’t stop lying. It’s in their nature.
(And yes, I know I said I’d not be posting here ’til Monday, but my articles need to be publicized as soon as I can do it.)
My response to CMP requirements for a citizen to purchase a Garand would not be fit to print. Went and bought them out of the newspaper classified when we still had some rights to buy and sell personal property.
Yes, if I had it to do over again I would not.
Funny, what you can learn in 30 years.
The Left’s antipathy towards the CMP goes back at least as far as Ted Kennedy’s attempts to kill the program outright.
During the Civil War, Confederate forces made a habit of beating numerically superior Union troops because, among other reasons, the North’s troops simply couldn’t shoot accurately. After the war, in an attempt to address that problem going forward, Union veterans and active duty personnel in and out of government started three organizations: the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Director of Civilian Marksmanship, and the National Rifle Association. The theory was simple. Put surplus service rifles into the hands of civilians with the hope that when young Americans later arrived at various basic training programs, they would already be familiar with military grade rifles and know how to shoot them accurately. Imagine that, “weapons of war” in the hands of civilians and provided to them largely at government expense.
https://www.army.mil/cmp
The Left has been working to destroy all three programs almost from their inception.
Kennedy’s attempt to completely defund the programs resulted in a compromise whereby a reorganized NBPRP and the DCM were “privatized”, as the current CMP.
“The National Defense Act also created the Office of the Director of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM), which was civilianized in 1996 as the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety, Inc. The restructuring of the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), earnestly supported by the NRA, was opposed by anti-gun members of Congress, who would have preferred to abolish the program entirely, eliminating its firearm safety training activities and destroying its rifles and ammunition.”
https://www.ssusa.org/content/dcm-cmp-and-nra-explained/
At age 11, my Boy Scout troop took a long hot bus ride into the western fringes of Dade County to Trail Glades Range. That facility had been a WWII training facility but had been transferred to Dade County’s parks department to be used as a civilian marksmanship training site. We spent the day learning marksmanship skills, using a site developed by the US military, with .22 rifles on loan from the DCM, and with ammunition and targets also provided by the DCM. Today it is one of Miami-Dade County’s most popular parks.
https://www.miamidade.gov/trailglades/home.page
That was my first experience with formal marksmanship training and at a young formative age. It’s a path I still follow today, as have both of my children, who purchased their CMP provided Garands after participating in an Appleseed shoot.
https://appleseedinfo.org/
https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/m1-Garand/
Is it any wonder why the anti-gun Left hates and wants to be rid of the CMP?
During 2020 I purchased a field grade Garand from the CMP. It was a more of an ordeal than buying one from an FFL or private party (NV is a UBC state). The advantage of the CMP purchase was at $750 it was a bargain, came with nice case & shipped to my residents. It came with a new stock.
The one I got 30 years earlier cost $250. Some will tell you the difference is increased demand for limited supply (I need to find out what happened to the tens of thousands the S Koreans wanted to ship back to us because they were no longer using them and didn’t want to have to store them) and the Obama admin forbade it), but I’d venture it has more to do with the accelerating devaluation of the accelerating created-out-of-thin-air dollar
Tales like that remind me of a spanking I once got from my mom for bringing home a $0.28 loaf of bread when a $0.22 loaf was available.
You’re not going to ever see Sunoco 260 for $0.33 a gallon or get a Colt 1873 SAA for $20.00 unless you offer a real gold “double eagle” for it.
Having a Fed policy of a “mere” 2% inflation target all but guarantees that one day Americans will be (metaphorically?) wiping their behinds on George Washington’s face because toilet paper will be cost more than $1.00 per sheet.
There’s your happy thought for today.
WB. Did you get in any canoeing practice?