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snscott wrote:You guys are talking about the Civilian Marksmanship Program almost like it no longer exists: But it does.

http://www.thecmp.org/index.htm

But, of course, the M1 Carbines are no longer $20 each (try $420 up through $675 depending on quality). However, one remaining cool aspect of it is that you can get them to FedEx your purchased rifle(s) straight to your door without going through an FFL.

Which made me think of this question:

Does anyone know if we Texans can order from there and have the rifles delivered to us here in Texas, or would that be against Texas State Law?

Personally, I'd like to get a M1 Garand from there.

I wasn't talking about the CMP, I was talking about the DCM program, which, although it morphed into the CMP, is a ghost of its former self.

One of the shames of the DCM selling those guns so cheap was the rampant conversion done to them back then. Ackley had a .357 Magnum conversion, and there was a 5.7mm one around. For a while just about every article in Guns and Ammo was about the latest wildcat and how easy and cheap it was.

I have an original one and wouldn't make changes to it if you paid me, it was my grandpappy's and it has much sentimentality attached. I also took a doe with it a bunch of years ago.

A friend of mine also had one that came home from the war with his father, and he modified it to .357 Magnum and did some other stuff to it and I was very upset with him for doing that to an "original."

When I bought my Springfield, through the DCM around 1960, there was NRA encouragement to participate, and the requirements to purchase were that the purchaser had to be involved in target shooting and be a member of a participating club. Membership in the NRA and particpation in NRA sanctioned matches were qualifiers.

DCM was never an NRA program, it was a US Government program, administered by the US Army.