The leadership of the Civilian Marksmanship Program recently updated its website with the requirements, guidelines and background checks needed to purchase an Army surplus 1911 .45 pistol in fiscal ...

Have you ever turned green with envy as you've watched a military convoy of brawny and beautiful camouflaged trucks thunder past? Do you find that searching and scrounging for the perfect truck at a ...

ALBANY ‒ Over the past decade, the popularity of the Armalite Rifle-15 in its many variants has not only become the most popular rifle sold in the United States but a topic of heated debate. One side ...

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is sold out of surplus 1911 .45 caliber pistols for this year, but the nonprofit still has M1 rifles to sell. The U.S. Army allowed 8,000 1911s to be transferred to ...

Pistols like this 1970s-era 1911 handgun could soon be available to private purchasers as part of 8,000 surplus guns being sold through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. (Photo: U.S. Archives) If you ...

Marine Cpl. Justin Morrall fires a 1911 M45A1 pistol at Susong Ri live fire range, Republic of Korea. The Army will soon transfer up to 10,000 surplus 1911s to the Civilian Marksmanship Program for ...

State and local police departments obtain some of their military-style equipment through a free Defense Department program created in the early 1990s. While the portion of their gear that comes from ...