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CMP History

The Civilian Marksmanship
Program traces its origin to 1903 when Congress and the President established
the National Matches and National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice.
The program gave life to a concept advanced by President Theodore Roosevelt and
several other national leaders that marksmanship skills developed through
regular practice and competition contribute to the nation’s defense.

When the program expanded
to make its competitions and military support available to civilians, it became
known as the “civilian marksmanship program.”

When U. S. Army interest
in marksmanship diminished after WWII, the CMP mission increasingly focused on
fostering youth development through marksmanship. Then in 1996, after 93 years
of Department of Defense and U. S. Army administration, Congress privatized the
program by creating a federally chartered, not-for-profit corporation known as
the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearm Safety, Inc
(CPRPFS).

Today, the program is
popularly known as the Civilian Marksmanship Program or CMP. The marksmanship
heritage inherited by the CMP in 1996 included the National Matches, Small Arms
Firing Schools, and a network of affiliated state associations and clubs.

The 1996 legislation (36
USC §40701-40733) states, in part, that the functions of the CMP are

1) to instruct citizens of the United States in marksmanship,

2)
to promote practice and safety in the use of firearms and

3)
to conduct competitions in the use of firearms.

The law goes on to state that “in carrying out the Civilian Marksmanship
Program, the corporation shall give priority to activities that benefit
firearms safety, training, and competition for youth and that reach as many
youth participants as possible.” 

A National Leader in
Firearm Safety and Marksmanship

Since 1996, the new CMP
built upon its marksmanship heritage to become a national leader in firearms
safety and marksmanship training and competition. In the 14 years since the CMP
became a non-profit corporation, its board of directors, administrative officers
and staff have launched numerous safety, marksmanship training and competition
programs that fulfill the corporation’s statutory mission.

The CMP has become a
national leader by emphasizing basic marksmanship instruction, mass
participation in its competitions, applying technological innovation and
providing outstanding
constituent service.

Marksmanship Clinics

Eight hundred juniors and adults received expert
instruction by CMP certified volunteers at 12 special clinics/camps this year.

CMP affiliated clubs have
conducted 130 marksmanship clinics and trained an estimated 1,200 new shooters
in 2010. The CMP has now trained 495 Master Instructors, including 112 in FY10,
who serve as rifle clinic instructors in their home clubs. The CMP provides
training curriculum for use in these clinics or camps.

Three-Position Air Rifle
Junior Competitions

Air rifle target shooting is now the most
popular youth shooting sports competition activity in the U.S. In addition to sanctioning
125 state and regional competitions for 5,000 junior competitors, the CMP
supported seven major national junior competitions in 2010 in cooperation with
the American Legion; Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force JROTC Commands;
Daisy/U. S. Jaycee Shooter Education Program; the U. S. Army; USA Shooting and
4-H Shooting Sports.

JROTC Marksmanship
Training

The CMP is responsible for
training and certifying JROTC instructors and JROTC ranges. It trained or
recertified 102 JROTC Marksmanship Instruction Course (JMIC) Master Instructors
in FY10. Since 2005, the CMP has trained 329 JMIC Master Instructors. JMIC
Master Instructors have now trained 5,525 JROTC instructors to teach gun safety and air rifle marksmanship to
cadets in their JROTC units.

JROTC Competitions

The CMP cooperated with the Army, Navy,
Marine and Air Force Cadet Commands to conduct JROTC postal, regional and
national marksmanship competitions. During the 2009-2010 school year 6,769
cadets participated in these competitions.

ROTC/JROTC Scholarships

The CMP awarded 150 $1,000 higher
education scholarships to
qualified ROTC/JROTC cadets for the upcoming academic year. The CMP recently expanded
its scholarship program budget from $100,000 to $150,000.

CMP Run Junior Rifle
Camps

The CMP junior air rifle camp staff,
comprised of U. S. Olympians and leading collegiate shooters, conducted nine
summer sports camps that taught advanced rifle marksmanship skills to 417
school age youth who were accompanied by 169 adult leaders.

Two CMP junior highpower
service rifle camps staffed by the Marine Corps Rifle Team at Camp Perry, Ohio
and Camp Butner, North Carolina taught advanced service rifle skills to 221
juniors.

Affiliated Clubs

There are 4688 clubs, schools, teams and
other shooting sports organizations

currently affiliated with the CMP.
Clinics and instruction offered by affiliated clubs are important ways for the
CMP to deliver gun safety and marksmanship programs to U. S. citizens.

Training Materials

A major part of the CMP’s educational
effort is the design, production and distribution of training materials that
are available in print or DVD formats or as on-line downloads through the CMP
website. This year’s distributions included 466,000 printed training and
program items plus several hundred DVDs and on-line downloads.

CMP’s Vision

 That Every Youth in America Has
the Opportunity to Participate in Firearm Safety and Marksmanship Programs

It was an eventful year for thousands
of young shooters across the U.S. as the Civilian Marksmanship Program reached
out to them with numerous firearm safety and marksmanship clinics, camps and
competitions.

The National Junior ROTC
three-position air rifle season kicked off in the fall of 2009 with postal
matches and concluded in March 2010 at the National Championships at the CMP Marksmanship
Center in Anniston, Alabama. Individual champion Richard Calvin of Tennessee
led his Siegel High School Army JROTC team to a national title in precision air
rifle. Marine Corps JROTC sporter air rifle competitor Thomas Wheeless of
Virginia emerged with a championship in a spirited final. Juniors flocked to a
series of CMP summer air rifle camps held at Anniston, Camp Perry, Fort Benning
and several Western outreach camps with an average attendance of 60 shooters.

At the 2010 National Matches, several
juniors fared well including Rebekah Jennings of Texas who set a new national
junior pistol record, winning the National Trophy Individual Pistol Junior
Match. Daniel Hall of Wisconsin placed second overall in the AiR-15
Challenge. Natalie Harper was successful as high junior, high woman and
high 4-H shooter in the Rimfire Sporter Match T-class. Tyler Rico of Tucson, AZ
was the high overall junior highpower service rifle champion.

Mutual
Beneficiency

• CMP budgets $150,000 for
higher education scholarships to JROTC finalists and to ROTC shooters.

• CMP Military Rifle
Instructors have augmented U. S. Army marksmanship instructors for five years.

• CMP provides JROTC
marksmanship and competition programs at no cost to the JROTC Commands.

• CMP handles the
Ceremonial Rifle Program for the Army by providing and repairing rifles used by
veterans’ organizations.

• CMP has provided over $3
million dollars to upgrade Camp Perry, Ohio; home to the National Matches, CMP
program headquarters, and the CMP North Competition Center.

The CMP neither seeks nor
receives government appropriations

or support; it reimburses
the U.S. Government for all costs it incurs in transferring government surplus
items to the CMP for sale and it spends over $1 million per year in supporting
U.S. Armed

So as you can see there is no need to was our Tax money because he wants to look good.

Rob Potter, President
Shoot Right,Certified: 
CMP JMIC Shooting Instructor Coach,
NRA/USA Shooting/CMP Coach Level 2 Rifle &
NASP Basic Archery Instructor
Web site: http://www.shootrightaz.org
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