Meet the Civilian Marksmanship Program, or CMP

The organization, which is about one hundred years old, became a spin off of the Army in 1996. The Army hands over old weapons to the CMP, which then sells them to the public. They have been doing this for more than seventy years and have amassed a quarter-billion dollars in assets. The purpose of CMP is “To promote firearm safety and marksmanship training with an emphasis on youth.” The government could very easily sell these old weapons on the open market and put the money in the U.S. Treasury.