Brown Bess is saved it's going to

"Brown Bess is saved it's going to..."

marks 36 hamon said:
the Stoney Creek Battlefield House
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Thank goodness for that. I would hate like hell to see *any* historic firearm (well, make that any firearm, period) be destroyed.

I think those "amnesty" things are a bunch of BS...


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I was just wondering this afternoon how the fight to save it was going. That's excellent news.
 
Anyone know if they are saving that pistol from the little big horn? Or any of the other rarer antiques?

Too bad it's going to some obscure underfunded local museum that likely can't afford to safeguard it from deterioration as opposed to the massively funded CWM...
 
Claven I hate to break it to you but W.W.Cookes Revolver sold to the States a few years back for around $250.000usd IIRC it was in the local paper FWIW he is buried just up the street from me . the gun in question was a percussion rifle from my understanding and not from the LBH just a rifle at home in Mt. Pleasent where the family home is. he wasn't from Hamilton like the paper said he from a little town(Mt Pleasent) outside Brantford his family mansion is now an old folks home i don't think but i could be wrong there is a plaque or anything .I could go on he was one of the guys I did some research on .BTW his was the only body not mutelated after the battle
 
Then what was all the fuss in the paper about how one of the guns (supposdly a single-shot front-stuffer pistol) having belonged to WW Cooke? Article didn;t say it was with him at LBH, just that it had belonged to him?
 
I sent an email where I condemned the melting and BM himself. Still waiting for a reply, he must be ashamed and not grown up enough to apologise to the public for his prior ignorant statements.

Way to go ladies and gents! One step at a time we are winning! Canada is winning!
 
so many rumours flying around the gun community about all this it's hard to keep track BUT in the paper today it states that a list has gone out to curators of possible historic firearms so lets see what happens next .the guy in charge of the Brantford museum and I spoke and I gave him a list of the small amount of guns the police brought out for me to see and he stated he would be in contact will the police last Monday he does have some pull so again well see what happens .I am not being contacted anymore by police .
 
marks 36 hamon said:
so many rumours flying around the gun community about all this it's hard to keep track BUT in the paper today it states that a list has gone out to curators of possible historic firearms so lets see what happens next .the guy in charge of the Brantford museum and I spoke and I gave him a list of the small amount of guns the police brought out for me to see and he stated he would be in contact will the police last Monday he does have some pull so again well see what happens .I am not being contacted anymore by police .
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Better never have a domestic disturbance at your house, or the swat team may practice breaching techniques on your front door ;)
 
yes I'm taking a few steps back from all this ..it not good to embarass the C.O.P. and D.C.O.P . needless to say I've taken some precautions
 
Battlefield House was a little spartan inside, last time I toured. An original Brown Bess will look good next to the Billy Green portrait.
A local Regimental Museum has also been in contact as per historical artifacts.
Good work Mark!
 
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