AMAZING Collection
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ThrottleJockey
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This is where I want my cremated remains to be kept....
ThrottleJockey
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Oops, look what I just found.
"Although the photographs themselves are genuine, many commentators have pointed out that the gun collection actually belonged to the late Bruce Stern, rather than Charlton Heston. Mr Stern was a lifelong military and gun collector. An attorney and Vietnam veteran, he was involved in a number of military and firearms related organizations. He was a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Board of Directors. Mr Stern passed away in July, 2007.
The Stern gun collection became famous among firearms enthusiasts. A portion of the extensive collection was auctioned off in March 2008 by James D. Julia Auctioneers. The auction, which included firearms from other collections as well as Stern's, raised a record-breaking $12.7 million. Photographs of items from the Stern collection are available on the Julia Auctions website. Another part of the Stern collection is set to be auctioned in October, 2008.
Although the gun collection featured in the photographs did not belong to Charlton Heston, the late actor was a passionate gun rights supporter and served as president and spokesman of the NRA from 1998 until 2003. He died in April 2008.
Misidentification of ownership aside, these photographs certainly reveal a truly remarkable collection."
"Although the photographs themselves are genuine, many commentators have pointed out that the gun collection actually belonged to the late Bruce Stern, rather than Charlton Heston. Mr Stern was a lifelong military and gun collector. An attorney and Vietnam veteran, he was involved in a number of military and firearms related organizations. He was a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Board of Directors. Mr Stern passed away in July, 2007.
The Stern gun collection became famous among firearms enthusiasts. A portion of the extensive collection was auctioned off in March 2008 by James D. Julia Auctioneers. The auction, which included firearms from other collections as well as Stern's, raised a record-breaking $12.7 million. Photographs of items from the Stern collection are available on the Julia Auctions website. Another part of the Stern collection is set to be auctioned in October, 2008.
Although the gun collection featured in the photographs did not belong to Charlton Heston, the late actor was a passionate gun rights supporter and served as president and spokesman of the NRA from 1998 until 2003. He died in April 2008.
Misidentification of ownership aside, these photographs certainly reveal a truly remarkable collection."
Brian Dale
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This collector* had excellent taste. I hope that he fired those from time to time.
* Edited to reflect info from TacoMalo's post.
* Edited to reflect info from TacoMalo's post.
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The So-Called Stern Collection
Bruce Stern's massive collection of firearms is well known to the online gun community. Photographs of a collection supposedly belonging to Stern have been widely mislabeled as belonging to Charlton Heston.[5] This mis-attribution has been written about on Snopes[6] which also displays the photographs of the gun vault. An interview with a family member stated that even the re-attribution of the Heston Collection to Mr. Stern is incorrect. The collection includes a wide variety of military rifles, including a number of rare military semi-automatics (the Pedersen rifle and Mexican Mondragón) and many early sniper rifles such as the Mauser M88.[7] In addition, he also owned a large number of antique machine guns, such as the MG42, the Vickers machine gun, and the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. The true owner of this collection is unknown.
Whoever it belongs to I wish I knew the dude!
Bruce Stern's massive collection of firearms is well known to the online gun community. Photographs of a collection supposedly belonging to Stern have been widely mislabeled as belonging to Charlton Heston.[5] This mis-attribution has been written about on Snopes[6] which also displays the photographs of the gun vault. An interview with a family member stated that even the re-attribution of the Heston Collection to Mr. Stern is incorrect. The collection includes a wide variety of military rifles, including a number of rare military semi-automatics (the Pedersen rifle and Mexican Mondragón) and many early sniper rifles such as the Mauser M88.[7] In addition, he also owned a large number of antique machine guns, such as the MG42, the Vickers machine gun, and the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. The true owner of this collection is unknown.
Whoever it belongs to I wish I knew the dude!
DocBoCook
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can I just play in your playroom Mr Sterns? I'll put it all back where I found it!!!
chuckusaret
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The first thing I noticed was the flame thrower, but just the large number of privately owned antique guns in a persons house is amazing. His wife must have been a very understanding woman.
Bill_Rights
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I gotta admit, there's something about having dozens of guns that I can't (or wouldn't have time to) shoot that I don't "get". The intimacy of shooting is primal with me. I don't even understand collecting on a smaller scale. But I gather that there are many on THR who collect. Does anyone care to explain to those of us who don't collect?
Bailey Guns
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I'm thinking the vault door, let alone the gun collection, is pretty impressive. Now I have "safe" and "gun" envy!
Lucky
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What's on top of the .50BMG? Some sort of solenoid?
Duke of Doubt
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That's only one room. There are more.
They are not under that house.
They are not under that house.
dobrzemetal
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with a collection like that chair and coutch need to go, get some leather ones.
rbernie
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You have to have the mindset of a caretaker.
I have a very small collection that I use for shooting. These are the ones that I use to hunt and in defense of me-n-mine. I have a larger collection of things that are just neat to have. Perhaps they are mechanically cool, or they speak to a specific cultural period/event, or they represent things that may not be available in two or three decades. Whatever the reason for their appeal, I want to preserve them and allow my heirs to have access to them. Perhaps they will choose to hunt or defend themselves with that which I set aside as 'nice to have'.
Perhaps not.
But I am preserving that option for them.
Most firearms represent a piece of history, and a latent capability. It is a shame to see that destroyed over time, and so some choose to act as caretakers for those items.
alexanderplatz
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To me it looks like a small telescope that is being employed as a rifle scope, perhaps for very-long-range sniping.
Dark_Harvest
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Hey, this house again!! (and again!!)
Can we just sticky this?? It comes back up every couple of months, might as well just keep it at the top!
Can we just sticky this?? It comes back up every couple of months, might as well just keep it at the top!
walker944
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Looks like an old World War I & II flame thrower on the wall to the right of the door. Very interesting room!
If you don't collect anything then collecting can't really be explained.
Collecting guns is no different than collecting art glass or stone tools/points. It is the context of what they are and where they come from as well as the work that had to go into producing them that makes anything people collect worth collecting. When was it made, how was it made, what was it used for, where on the developmental curve of design or technology does it fall. It's all context, and the quality of the pieces.
Collecting guns is no different than collecting art glass or stone tools/points. It is the context of what they are and where they come from as well as the work that had to go into producing them that makes anything people collect worth collecting. When was it made, how was it made, what was it used for, where on the developmental curve of design or technology does it fall. It's all context, and the quality of the pieces.
Owen Sparks
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So now that the owner has died, what will become of the Class III
firearms? Can they be bequested or will the government confiscate and distroy them?
firearms? Can they be bequested or will the government confiscate and distroy them?
Milkmaster
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Has anyone ever noticed that there are no handguns in those pictures? I have looked at these same photos at different websites and wondered why no handguns? Great collection! Just an observation.
mcdonl
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This looks like the room that is shown a lot on weaponology on the military channel a lot. They will show a modern weapon. but then work thier way up to it from it's origins and the old weapons are always shown in the same room and it looks like this room.
Leroy
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ThrottleJockey
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A portion was auctioned in March '08, fetched 12.7 million. More was scheduled for auction in Oct.'08.
http://juliaauctions.net/auctions/233/selected_highlights.asp
http://juliaauctions.net/auctions/233/selected_highlights.asp
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