An Update from CMP Chairman and CEO Jerry O’Keefe October 1, 2025 Update: Our partner, Heritage Arms, expects to begin delivery of production receivers in mid December 2025. Fulfillment of regular production orders is projected to begin in January 2026, starting with serial number 1001. Please visit https://thecmp.org/m1-garand-by-cmp/ for more details and to place your order. As some of you may have seen on social media, we are about to roll out a new program – the new M1 Garand by CMP.  In March we brought two “test” M1 Garands out to Phoenix and the Ben Avery Shooting Facility during the Arizona Game & Fish March Outdoor Expo.  We did the same at the recent CMP Eastern Games in NC to begin to introduce this new CMP project and product line.  It is in fact a project we’ve been working on for quite some time with our partner and the manufacturer of the receiver – Heritage Arms USA. More about Heritage Arms USA will follow below.  The CMP is excited about this new program, and with thousands of social media views and about 1,000 mostly positive comments, we hope all our customers and competitors will be excited as well. What is it? To start with the basics . . . it is a commercial reproduction of the classic and historic rifle with a commercial forged receiver as its centerpiece. The CMP and Heritage Arms used both the original drawings and specifications of a Springfield receiver and, of course, the actual historic receivers themselves to recreate identical, forged replicas of the original. … Continue reading Introducing the M1 Garand by CMP: A New Chapter Begins!