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New M1 Garands Being Offered By CMP by Guy J. Sagi

The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is taking pre-orders for new M1 Garands produced by Heritage Arms USA, an Alabama manufacturer. For CMP, which has sold U.S. government surplus rifles and pistols for decades, it’s a brand-new venture.

M1 Garands by CMP rifles are a commercial reproduction of the original, right down to the distinctive “ping” the gun makes when ejecting the clip.

Original drawings and specifications were used to ensure the freshly forged receivers reflect the historic design. Each has a new gas cylinder and commercially produced precision barrel. The only cosmetic departure, albeit a minor one, is the CMP serial number stamped onto the receiver.

The first rifles manufactured will be chambered for .30-’06 Sprg. And .308 Win. Other chamberings are being considered, depending on demand.

MSRP is $1,900, plus $40 to cover shipping and handling. Each will come with a CMP custom-fitted rifle case. The organization anticipates it will keep some of the lowest serial numbers for historic reasons and likely auction those numbering up to 100.

Due to strict maintenance to historic design ammunition is a consideration when shooting the rifle. “The CMP’s newly manufactured M1 Garand rifles are built to the original specifications and maintain the same gas system tolerances as the WWII-era designs,” CMP explained in its announcement. “As such, they require ammunition that stays within the correct pressure range to avoid excessive stress on the system.”

Extensive testing has already been conducted at Arizona’s Ben Avery range and North Carolina’s Eastern Games. The M1 Garand by CMP passed with flying colors using Lake City and other M2 ball specification ammunition.

CMP is a federally authorized non-profit organization that traces its history back to the 1903 War Appropriations Act. Its inclusion in that measure, supported by Theodore Roosevelt, was an effort to encourage marksmanship training among civilians to improve the nation’s defensive capabilities.

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Top 10 Fallback Jobs For Laid-Off IRS Workers U.S. by the BabylonBee.com

With new reports indicating that President Trump’s administration has reduced the Internal Revenue Service workforce by a staggering 25% since January, tens of thousands of former IRS employees are now looking for work. But what does the job market look like for them?

The Babylon Bee has put together the following list to help laid-off IRS workers land on their feet:

  1. Pretty much any job at the DMV: Unpleasant government positions nobody in the general public wants to interact with? A natural fit.
  2. Mugger: Jumping out of a dark alley to demand all of someone’s money. Sounds about right.
  3. Fill-in host of CBS’s The Late Show: Wait, never mind.
  4. Proctologist: Another job that’s perfect for someone accustomed to probing people in the most uncomfortable and invasive ways possible.
  5. Middle management on the Death Star: A simple, lateral move from one evil empire to another.
  6. Summer spot on the host panel for ABC’s The View: Wait, never mind.
  7. Serial killer: A great job for someone who is used to having everyone mortally terrified at the mere mention of them.
  8. Goon for cartoonish supervillain: Most of Batman’s rogues’ gallery is probably in the market for mobs of henchmen.
  9. CIA interrogator: Waterboarding can’t be that much worse than being audited.
  10. Jehovah’s Witness missionary: IRS workers are well-suited for jobs that have them showing up unwanted on people’s doorsteps.

If you’re a former IRS employee, any one of the jobs listed above should be right up your alley. Have other positions you’d suggest for out-of-work IRS workers? Throw them in the comments below

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Report: Stricter Gun Control States Lead in Adolescent Firearm Deaths by AWR Hawkins

A report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) shows that states with stricter control lead other states in adolescent firearm deaths.

NSSF based their findings on a June 2025 study published in the Journal for American Medical Association Pediatrics (JAMA Pediatrics).

The title of the study is, “Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US,” and its authors categorized states into three groups, “Strict,” “Permissive” and “Most Permissive.” The authors then claimed, “…permissive firearm laws contributed to thousands of excess firearm deaths among children living in states with permissive policies; future work should focus on determining which types of laws conferred the most harm and which offered the most protection.”

Establishment media outlets like the New York Times, ABC News, and CNN ran with the authors’ claim, leaving NSSF to note that the outlets never asked why the “study’s authors manipulate the data by using estimated, predicted and crude-rate adjusted figures instead of analyzing the real incidents.” NSSF responded by noting that a simple look at raw Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data tells a completely different story.

According to the NSSF:

Rebuilding the data set using the same time, population and mechanism parameters established by the authors using CDC’s data tells a different story entirely.

 

The eight states the authors rated as “Strict” and having the most restrictive gun control laws – California, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey – on average saw more unadjusted adolescent firearm mortality than the 11 “Permissive” and 30 “Most Permissive” states.

“The firearm industry isn’t deterred or distracted by biased studies that push political narratives,” NSSF added. “For decades, the firearm industry has brought forward effective and proven firearm safety initiatives to keep firearms beyond the reach of those who should never have them. That includes unsupervised children.”

(File this one under the “No Shit Sherlock file” Grumpy)

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So he brought a set of brass knuckles to a gunfight

From Splendid Isolation:

If you’re anything like me, you’ll be wanting a cigarette after reading this lovely little story — even if like me you don’t smoke.

An intruder who used brass knuckles to beat against a front door and break a window just before midnight Friday in Missouri was shot multiple times by the homeowner and killed.

KFVS 12 reported that the homeowner, Austin Glastetter, was in the house with his wife at the time of the incident.

Glastetter told the suspect, 31-year-old John Fisher, that he was armed, but Fisher allegedly responded by saying, “You’ll have to kill me.”

Wait, wait, hold it in for just a minute…

Glastetter then shot Fisher multiple times.

And:

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office issued a release noting that deputies arrived on the scene to find Fisher deceased.

Smoke ’em if you got ’em…

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Judge: Machine Guns Are Now 2A PROTECTED?! This Kansas Case Could END the Ban for Good!

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What a stud of a man!

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The man must of had solid brass balls!

On this day, 80 years ago on April 2nd 1945, Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg met Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler at the Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany; Himmler was unsuccessful in convincing Bernadotte to help seek a peace between Germany and the Western Allies.

In 1943, Bernadotte was appointed head of Sweden’s Red Cross.

He wasted no time using his contacts and his humanitarian platform to try to help some of those most in need: prisoners of war (POWs) held by Germany.

By the beginning of 1945, Bernadotte had managed to secure the exchange and safe passage to Sweden of thousands of Allied POWs. But rather than withdrawing after a mission successfully accomplished, Bernadotte dramatically upped the ante. Contacting Heinrich Himmler, he proposed that the Swedish Red Cross be allowed to bring concentration camp inmates to Sweden, too.

It was a brazen suggestion, but it worked. Himmler gave Bernadotte permission to retrieve some 8,000 inmates, primarily Danes and Norwegians, from German concentration camps.

To ensure that Allied bombers didn’t target the evacuees, Bernadotte secured permission for the inmates to travel in 36 buses (donated by Volvo), which had been painted white with a red cross on their roofs. Because incarceration had left the inmates in perilous health, the buses also carried medical equipment. Some 250 Swedish Red Cross helpers accompanied Bernadotte and the concentration camp evacuees in what soon became known as Bernadotte Convoys.

With these evacuations underway, Bernadotte presented Himmler with another humanitarian rescue scheme: he wanted permission to free non-Scandinavians; Jews and others, from concentration camps and bring them to Sweden. On April 21st, Himmler agreed. Bernadotte Convoys managed to bring some 12,000 other concentration camp inmates to Sweden, including 7,000 women from Ravensbrück, around half of whom were Jewish.

When the war ended, Bernadotte had rescued at least 15,500 concentration camp inmates

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How to purchase 1911 pistols through restarted Civilian Marksmanship Program by Caleb Taylor

The Trump administration will again begin allowing sales of 1911 pistols through the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) announced on Monday.

Interested buyers can order the surplus pistols here.

The CMP 1911 Program offers U.S. military-issued, field-tested M1911A1 pistols. Each firearm is inspected and test fired, “ensuring collectors and enthusiasts receive a quality piece of American history,” according to the CMP.

The lifetime purchase limit of 1911 surplus pistols is two.

Rogers said on Monday, “I am pleased to see that the Trump Administration has decided to release 10,000 surplus pistols and to allow the CMP to resume sales.”

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