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Selling vintage military handguns to civilians is common sense
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Another was my amendment to allow the Army to transfer its surplus vintage firearms to the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) which has its southern headquarters in Anniston and will soon have the CMP park open in June in Talladega County.
If you’re a gun owner like I am, you may be familiar with the M1911A1. This iconic pistol used to serve as the standard U.S. Armed Forces sidearm, until it was replaced by the Berretta 9mm pistol. Although a few thousand of these pistols have been sold to foreign countries for a small fee, the remainder are being held in storage. That costs the taxpayer about $200,000 a year. |
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Millwright66
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| CMP programs and processes have multiple 'safeguards' providing the nearest thing possible to an 'ironclad guarantee' these obsolescent weapons will be responsibly owned and used. There's more than a little irony in the concern of 'officialdom' about returning obsolescent weapons to the taxpayer when government is liberally giving modern weapons of far greater lethality to uncertain 'allies' or potential enemies. |
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