Local VFW Post Looks to Upgrade Rifles, Offering Raffle for Their Vintage Model

A gun salute at a county Memorial Day ceremony by VFW Post 6937 (Madison Doyle, photo).

Darren Doyle, story:
Local VFW Post 6937 is looking to upgrade the vintage rifles used in burial honors with a more user-friendly version. Last week, Post members voted to upgrade their WWII bolt action rifles, which they say are getting more difficult for their older members to operate. 

"Unlike the Army, our Post doesn’t have a federal budget so we have decided to get the ball rolling with a raffle of one of our best 03-A3 rifles through C & C Firearms of Brownsville," the Post said in a press release.

Raffle tickets are $10 each and expected to go on sale beginning Tuesday, 29 July 2025.  The drawing will take place on Veterans Day.  This is your chance to own a piece of WWII and county history while helping the Post acquire newly built military style semiautomatic rifles (M1A).

"Here in Edmonson County, VFW Post 6937 is most visible to the community in providing burial honors for veterans (for which we have been using these rifles for the last ten years), conducting flag training, patriotic speaking and writing contests in the schools, as well as providing honors at significant community events, such as the Memorial Day ceremony in the Courthouse square," the Post stated. "This year, for the first time, we cleaned neglected veteran graves in the Mammoth Cave National Park.  Our Post meets on the third Monday of each month at 6:30 pm at the Edmonson County Library.  If you are an Honorably discharged veteran with a campaign medal from any overseas conflict, please join us."