Once approved, the CMP will email the applicant a number randomly assigned in the current year’s drawing and then the fun begins with about 800 or so pistols shipped out each month. The process is simple, with the applicant filling out an eight-page packet similar to that for an M1 Garand and mailing it to their Anniston office. This led to a lottery system that the CMP has used since late 2018 to sell the M1911s portioned out to the organization by the Army. This led to a push from the Congressman who represented the Anniston area to donate the guns to CMP for sale and, by 2018, Congress had approved the transfer at a rate of 10,000 pistols per year provided the organization carefully secured the guns (including building a $700,000 handgun vault) and meticulously managed how they were sold– more on the latter in a minute. This left the Army in 2016 with about 100,000 guns still left in storage at Anniston Army Depot, with a cost of about $1.5 million a year to keep clean and dry. However, even SOCOM eventually put the old M1911 out to pasture, replaced by easier-to-maintain Glocks and SIGs. 45 throughout the Cold War and into the Global War on Terror, as the gun remained much-loved by commando types– Special Forces A-teams were still carrying it in Afghanistan post-9/11. Nonetheless, the military still used the single-action. By then, even the newest of the M1911s in stock had been manufactured and delivered in 1945, making them downright elderly. The Army, after trying and failing in the 1950s and 60s to replace the old warhorse with a more compact 9mm that held more ammunition, finally managed to pull it off in 1985 with the adoption of the M9 Beretta.
With over 2 million made, the classic “Government Issue” pistol was the staple of American fighting men in both world wars as well as Korea and Vietnam. One of the biggest boondoggles has been the Army’s repeated attempt at getting rid of its M1911.
So if you haven’t gotten yours in yet and missed out on the first two rounds, now is your chance. It had been set to accept packets postmarked in September but now it looks like the new cutoff date is October 31, 2022.
Well, the CMP just extended the 3rd round for the next batch of 10,000 guns. For more on the CMP, see FOIA shows that it was still in circulation with a unit somewhere until 2010 when it was sent to AAD for a decade of storage prior to being sent to CMP You’re teaching younger kids stuff they won’t learn for another 10 years at school.”įor more on the White Oak Rod & Gun Club, see.
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“Gun safety, what to do if you find a firearm, how to unload it, discipline, physics, meditation from relaxing your breathing before you shoot. “It instills lifelong values,” Pritz said.
on the second Sunday of each month, except for May, at the club’s range, 600 Skellytown Road, North Huntingdon. The club also offers the use of its M1 Garand rifles and ammunition for a $25 fee.ĬMP shoots are at 9 a.m. The cost is $3 for the club’s 315 members and $5 for nonmembers. In 2009, Hempfield graduate Lucas Boord won the National Rimfire Sporter Championship, one of the wide variety of CMP competitions held at Camp Perry.Īt the White Oak club’s monthly CMP program, participants can opt for marksmanship practice at 100 or 200 yards, using four rounds to sight in their weapons, then firing 10 rapid-fire rounds and 10 slow-fire rounds while prone, followed by 10 rounds of hand slow firing. They can also enter the CMP’s National Trophy Matches, held at Camp Perry in Ohio.ĬMP participants from Western Pennsylvania have done the state proud: In 2015, Matthew Lovre of Penn Township won the President’s 100, an honor given to the top 100 shooters at the Camp Perry competitions, and set what was then a national record for his aggregate score during the President’s 100 Match Shoot Off. Participants can qualify for the opportunity to purchase government-surplus rifles such as the M1 Garand at CMP stores, one of which is in Port Clinton, Ohio.
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