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Excellent 1851 Colt Navy that belonged to an abolitionist is returned to museum.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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April 1st, 2010 at 9:59 am
What a wonderful story!
The slaves were not freed with kind words.
April 1st, 2010 at 11:40 am
wow, how does a BP gun survive THAT long and look THAT good?
April 1st, 2010 at 2:10 pm
It belongs in a museum!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Just how exactly does a museum in Chicago legalize possession of a usable handgun within the city limits? I think there is a guy named McDonald who might want to know.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
“wow, how does a BP gun survive THAT long and look THAT good?”
Probably wasn’t fired much, and in any case, you keep them reasonably clean and dry, don’t handle them a lot, and they’ll last for centuries. Or millennia. There are plenty of surviving examples from 100s of years ago, long before percussion ignition, and even before the flintlock.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:51 pm
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They also declined to reimburse him for the costs he incurred in acquiring and insuring the gun.
“That was never a condition of returning it, [but] why couldn’t they just hand me $500 or even $100?” he said.”
Hell, he’s lucky Daley didn’t have him charged with receiving stolen property and possession and carrying of a firearm in Chicago.
While I applaud the honesty and principle of this man, I would never have relinquished it to any sonofabitch in Chicago. Not ever, unless they become part of America, which they show no desire to do.