From this… Complete Colt Gatling gun found in St. Louis WITH carriage… Note the proof marks, smiths mark and barrel numbers… According to the RIA rep, they only had to do minimal cleaning, and the gun went together “seamlessly”…And when … Continue reading
Category Archives: NRA convention
Well, we’ve proven yet again we can’t count… What was ‘hoped’ to be around 20 folks getting together at Ginger Man (BEER), like 4 pages worth… of BEERS… Well, we ended up at 26, 28, 32, 36, and finally 38 … Continue reading
Various thoughts from the day… Thanks to Kevin at Smallest Minority for the dinner list from last night!!! Lots of overseas coverage compared to what I remember from last year! I met Danes, Aussies, and one German this morning covering … Continue reading
Sitting in the press room taking a break, and listening to Rick Perry and Ted Cruz speak about freedom and the Second Amendment; guess what pops in on email… Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention … Continue reading
We’re HEEERRREEE… Or at least some of us are… 🙂 Had a nice chat with the Gunny at the airport while waiting for bags. He’s truly a nice guy, and at least 6 folks came up and asked for … Continue reading
MC and Ev asked for a couple of comparisons while I was at the NRA Convention, so here they are…First the Sig P238/928-Both are very concealable, while not necessarily “pocket” pistols, they are single stacks and very slim. I found … Continue reading
Quick hits from the morning ‘stroll’ through the floor… Talking with the folks at Shaw Barrels, they indicated they are 3-4 months behind on barrels, 4-5 months behind on rebarreling customer rifles, and 14 months behind on their MK-7 rifles! … Continue reading
As I said, some of the ‘fun’ things seen walking around… Somewhere between $3-400,000 worth of Rifles Cavalry Colt- $175,000 estimated sale price Remington-Rand 1911A1, Serial Number 1! The Thompson/Auto Ordnance Display (note the signature above the pic of the … Continue reading
The crowds were heavy yesterday, and today was even MORE crowded… And people were just as polite today as they were yesterday… An interesting note from the Press Room, the ‘suits’ studiously ignored all of us peon bloggers, to the … Continue reading
Well, it’s official, Jay G is a blogging fool… I think he put up either four or five posts already today at the convention!We met up with Ian Harrison on the way down, and had a good chat with him, … Continue reading