CMP Sales of 1911s One Step Closer

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CMP Sales of 1911s One Step Closer

Postby jdege on Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:56 am

CMP Sales of 1911s One Step Closer With House Passage of 2018 NDAA
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20170714/cmp-sales-of-1911s-one-step-closer-with-house-passage-of-2018-ndaa
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2810, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018. Included in the bill is a provision that would make U.S. Army surplus 1911 .45 ACP pistols available to the American public through the Civilian Marksmanship program (CMP).

In November of 2015, then-President Obama signed the NDAA for Fiscal year 2016 into law with language that authorized the Secretary of Defense to transfer 1911s no longer in service to the CMP for public sale. That language made the transfers subject to the Secretary’s discretion and capped them at 10,000 per year. Unsurprisingly, no actual transfers were made under the program while Obama remained in the White House.

This year’s language, however, would effectively make the transfers mandatory and would remove the yearly cap. Currently, the military has some 100,000 excess 1911s sitting in storage at taxpayer expense. Transfer of these historically-significant firearms would ease a burden on the government’s heavily indebted balance sheet and help preserve important artifacts from the era when the U.S. military defended Western Civilization from worldwide fascism and aggressive Communist expansion.

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TAKE ACTION TODAY

If you would like to see 1911 sales return to the CMP, please contact your U.S. Senators and Representative and urge them to keep the House language on this matter intact in the final bill they send to the president. You can contact Senators and Representative at 202-225-3121.
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Re: CMP Sales of 1911s One Step Closer

Postby jdege on Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:36 am

FWIW, only one Minnesota Congressman voted against this bill - Ellison.
Even McCollum voted Aye.
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Re: CMP Sales of 1911s One Step Closer

Postby Ghost on Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:15 pm

I need to become a member
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Re: CMP Sales of 1911s One Step Closer

Postby 2in2out on Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:53 pm

Awesome!
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