Any "Gun Streets" in your town?

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we have a Ruger Road here, but I don't know if it counts because it's actually where Sturm-Ruger has a factory :neener:
 
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My nearest town has, quite simply "Gun Street". Unsuprisingly, it used to be the home of numerous gunsmiths and gunshops. Today they've all moved out of town a little bit (in resedential areas, not suburbs exactly) or just gone out of business.
 
we have a "2nd street" and a springfield ct. that's about it. Everything else pertains to water or space or nasa.
 
Beretta is most likely mis-spelled on purpose. Beretta has thing for trademark lawsuits. If anyone remembers the lawsuit against Generous Motors regarding a Chevrolet auto with the same name.
 
Couldn't find any gun names, but lots of aircraft names. But we do have the highest concentration of airports and airplanes in the nation right where I live.
 
Oh, I forgot GA Hwy 2A. The actual name happens to be Battlefield Parkway. I can't believe I never put the two together.
 
I don't know about streets, but there is Gunstock ski area just about 30 miles from me. I skied there in January. The ski runs have gun related names.

I have seen many versions of "freedom" names, such as Liberty, Constitution, and Republic.
 
There's a President Clinton Avenue in Little Rock. :D



I'm sure there are some, but I can't think of any right now. Most of the streets in my town are named after trees or former presidents (though not Clinton ;)). It seems like there's a subdivision with gun-named streets.
 
Oh, yeah, Topperwein.

My dad has/had one of his pieces. IIRC, it was an Indian silhoutte.

My dad grew up just west of San Antonio, in the little town of Hondo.
 
there is a Gun Club Road on the outskirts of Denver/Aurora, Colorado that leads to an outdoor range...at least there was when I lived there many moons ago.
 
we have a Ruger Road here, but I don't know if it counts because it's actually where Sturm-Ruger has a factory
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You beat me to it!:D

I think it counts, its got a sign so thats all the convincing I need.
 
There is a "Gunclub Road" in Boulder.... Probably someone already said that, but I didn't read all the posts, so sorry...
 
Heheh I live in the DFW area, to be honest haven't noticed street names, but on my way to Houston sometimes i can't help but smile when i see the sign and wish my address was

Tharg
5555 Some Road Name
Cut and Shoot, TX

<grin>

Gunbarrel City comes to mind too, but i like Cut and Shoot better...

Where i used to work our "head of security", his last name was slaughter and yes on his license he lived on Slaughter Ln.

hehehe

-J/Tharg!
 
How do you navigate in towns like that? Need to memorize every darn street in the city...

I'm finishing up in college and haven't driven much in awhile, but where I grew up we had it real simple: 1st Street runs along the north edge of our county against the next county. Numbers increment every street until you reach the south end of the county. 1st Avenue started at the lake (east side), and the numbers incremented until you hit the west edge of the county. All roads named "street" run east-west, all "avenue" run north-south, more or less. Need to get to 6312 52nd Street? It's just a little south of where 63rd Avenue and 52nd Street cross.

How is this gun related? The story I heard is that this naming system developed due to pressure from mobsters during prohibition. They wanted a simple system for giving directions and making runs. Al Capone's mansion on the lake still stands as a tourist attraction, complete with secret boat launch :). In the old stores of the downtown area, whole blocks sometimes have connected basement structures used for speakeasies and other affairs.
 
MattC, I hate hate HATE road structures like that. It's so easy to conflate "avenue" with "street".

What's even worse is when a town has a setup like that, but "Main St." and "Main Ave" bisect at the center of it all: there's a 1st St. North and a 1st St. South, and the same for Ave. I'm not sure why it's so confusing for me, but living in a town like that it took me a good couple months to not get easily disoriented while driving around after dark. (The fact that the "Ave", "St", "N", and "S" were printed quite small on the road signs may have had something to do with it.)
 
Bismarck has a whole neighborhood devoted to the worship of the classic names: Browning, Hawken, Weatherby, Winchester, Sharps, and it goes on...

--usp_fan
 
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