by Ashley Brugnone | Mar 3, 2025 | California
Submitted by David Chase, CMP Match Director We had a great day at Burbank Rifle and Revolver Club (BRRC) on Feb. 8 in Castaic, Calif., with a record turnout for our first ever Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) Rimfire Sporter Regional Championship – 22 Scorecards...
by Christine Elder | Nov 18, 2024 | California, Ohio
By Ashley Dugan, CMP Staff Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Mark your calendars! The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is thrilled to announce SGT Sagen Maddalena of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit as the 2025 National Matches First Shot Speaker. She will take her...
by David Yamane | Sep 16, 2023 | AR platform rifles, California, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the second of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to...
by Christine Elder | Aug 18, 2023 | California
By Sheri Trusty, CMP Feature Writer Each year at Camp Perry, two new names are added to the Freedom’s Fire Trophy which honors the first-place team in the National Trophy Junior Team Match. Since the trophy’s creation in 2009, five of those teams have come from the...
by Christine Elder | Aug 14, 2023 | California
By Jennifer Green, CMP Feature Writer John Bickar of Menlo Park, California, made his return to Camp Perry after 22 years, competing for the 10th time in the National Matches. He had an impressive performance at the 2023 National Pistol Matches, most notably winning...
by David Yamane | May 18, 2023 | California, Gun Culture, My Experience, Open Source Shooting Sports, Trish Sargentini
“It’s fun. It’s a sport. And it’s a skill.” Participant in Open Source Shooting Sports range event It’s no secret that early in my research on American gun culture, I took Michael Bane’s idea of a Gun Culture 2.0 and brought...
