[marktwain]

Those in the gun culture, which used to be the dominant culture in the United States, understand that this program makes sense.

[marktwain]

I mistated that the gun culture “used” to be the dominant culture in the United States. It still is, evidenced by the rise of ccw laws.

The politics of the country has been hijacked by the MSM for decades.

[ctdonath2]

“A Congressional document, leaked by Wikileaks details how...”

That’s like blaming the phone company for leaking your phone number in the phone book. The history of DCM/CMP is no secret.

[moovova]

Memory may fail me...but doesn’t successful completion of an Appleseed weekend qualify the attendee to purchase one of these weapons? Some sort of card/certificate is provided? You can actually do the weekend with a .22 cal long gun (most Appleseed events even have 10/22 loaners!).

[DuncanWaring]

It’s curious that the article continuously refers to the Civilian Marksmanship Program as the “CMS”.

Also, I’ve bought three rifles from them, and the “rigorous screening program” doesn’t seem to be anything more than a standard background check.

[scottteng]

The problem is the price that CMP is getting for the rifles has gotten outrageous. Why pay more for a well worn antique rifle that has been returned to the US after service with some third world country than you can stroll down to the gun store and buy a nice rifle brand new. If history is your thing the cheapest they have is a “drill rifle” which has been rendered inoperable at $345 which is suitable for wall hanging and that only. I’d rather have a nice painting or print.

[Kartographer]

Sounds like a great opportunity to pick-up some good quality yard tools.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Joe Brower]

Anyone reading this who hasn't already obtained an M1 Garand from the CMP (or two, or three, or...), I cannot recommend it more highly. It's a genuine piece of history, not to mention that the Garand (for me anyway) points more naturally than almost anything else I own, and when you shoot something with a .30-06, it tends to stay shot.

The AR-15 is the rifle my generation grew up with, and that's a good rifle, too, but there's something about a Garand that just can't be duplicated.

[smokingfrog]

Whatever happened to those S. Korean M1’s they were trying to import that got nixxed by the State Dept. ?

[MHGinTN]

Good luck finding an M1Carbine at CMP ... and when are the Korean returns of Garands supposed to hit the market?

[tnlibertarian]

bump for later.

[jboot]

What idiocy is this? CMP has been around for over half a century. My grandfathers took advantage of the program, back when they distributed handguns, even. These guys just discovered it? Via Wikileaks?

The lameness is cosmic.

[pabianice]

>>Now before you get your gun controlling underpants in a bunch: there is quite a rigorous screening process in order to obtain one of these bad boys.

Meanwhile, a fine SKS 56 can be had for 1/8 the money at any gun shop.