Famous people owned what guns?

[DustyGmt]

Kurt Cobain and the Browning Auto 5

And it was subsequently destroyed with a torch, like a week after........

 

[Reloadron]

Growing up on Long Island during the 50's I remember my dad taking the family to Sagamore Hill and Teddy Roosevelt's summer home and during his administration The Summer White House. I remember all the guns room to room, guns and hunting trophies. I have to wonder if I did the tour today (actually it's closed for COVID) if all of those great guns would still be prominently displayed as I remember them. I must have been 9 ~ 10 years old and to this day I remember that tour and the incredible display of guns. Sadly New York is no longer the New York I grew up in.

Ron

 

[Kleanbore]

I cannot find anything on this, but i seem to recall reading that the great baritone opera singer Sherrill Milnes enjoyed target shooting with handguns.

 

[Speedo66]

Growing up on Long Island during the 50's I remember my dad taking the family to Sagamore Hill and Teddy Roosevelt's summer home and during his administration The Summer White House. I remember all the guns room to room, guns and hunting trophies. I have to wonder if I did the tour today (actually it's closed for COVID) if all of those great guns would still be prominently displayed as I remember them. I must have been 9 ~ 10 years old and to this day I remember that tour and the incredible display of guns. Sadly New York is no longer the New York I grew up in.

Ron

We visited Sagamore Hill on a JR. HS school trip, must have been in the late '50's, and all his guns and mounted game trophies impressed me at the time.

No idea if they're still there, but wouldn't be surprised had they been removed for PC.

 

[Reloadron]

We visited Sagamore Hill on a JR. HS school trip, must have been in the late '50's, and all his guns and mounted game trophies impressed me at the time.

No idea if they're still there, but wouldn't be surprised had they been removed for PC.

My guess is they were removed. I took a "virtual tour" following my post and while the mounts were there the guns never showed up.

Ron

 

[Reinz]

I saw a pic of Andy Griffith reloading. Not sure what guns he owned.

Andy loading on a Hollywood Universal III, aka Universal model B Deluxe, aka Model C.

 

[DustyGmt]

Black ops arms, a LGS located in Claremont, NH, used to be one of my semi local haunts until they did a few things that turned me away, anyway during Trumps campaign visit to NH, he stopped to address his strong position as a 2A ally and to work the 2A crowd a lil bit, during that visit Black Ops Arms presented him with an AR15. I can't remember what kind or type of setup it was, if I'm ever in there again I'll check out the picture of him accepting it, I think it might of been one of those stars and stripes hydro dip dealios with "Trump" plastered on the side of it iirc.

I have wondered if he has ever shot a gun or owns any, or in the remotest of possibilities did he ever shoot that AR he was presented with. Probably not, he probably pitched it into the trash or had it ground up into brillo pads...

 

[chickasaw_hunter]

Robert Stack was a spokesperson for Mossberg back in the day. He was a competitive shotgunner and of course used Mossbergs after he went on the payroll.

 

[Hunter 08]

Joe Mantegna shoots the clay games, as well as some action pistol, I believe.

If you watched Criminal Minds, he always carries a 1911 pattern pistol, as he likes that one a lot.

Charles Bronson, some would argue single handily saved Wildey Firearms from closing permanently when he used his own personal .475 Wildey Magnum in Death Wish III.

Keanu Reeves does 3 gun competitions, that's how he can do decent in John Wick.

Clint Eastwood...I'm not sure anymore, seems as he has gotten older hes become more anti-gun.

 

[George P]

Robert Stack was a spokesperson for Mossberg back in the day. He was a competitive shotgunner and of course used Mossbergs after he went on the payroll.

Robert Stack’s fame as a movie and television actor stretches the length of all continents, but he has also achieved fame by being the only shooter to be named in Jimmy Robinson’s first three Sports Afield All‑America teams for 1935, 1936 and 1937. During his career at the traps, he broke a world long run record and was a member of the Los Angeles Santa Monica Gun Club that broke a five‑man team world record.

The late Harry Fleischmann gave Bob his first skeet lesson at the Santa Monica club in 1934. After recording his first 25 straight the first year, he went on to win the Western Open Class B Championship with a 94×100 and the California State Class B with a 95. At 16 years of age, Stack went to Cleveland where he placed second in the junior race and broke 97 in the World 20 gauge Open. The next year in St. Louis, he won the World 20 gauge Championship with 99 and was high gun on the victorious L.A. Santa Monica quintet that won the five‑man team championship. Earlier that year, Stack won the Western Open 12 gauge, the .410 bore, and the all‑around as well as the Southern California Open 20 gauge.

He was a member of the Santa Monica team that won the National Telegraphic shoot when they broke 487×500 in the regular event and set a world record of 493×500 in the shoot off. He won every 12 gauge event he entered with the exception of the national 12 gauge, missing it by one target. Stack set a world long run record with 364 straight with low gun and variable targets. In 1937 he again broke 247×250 at Detroit. Before the Detroit shoot, Bob won the Southern Cal .410 and 12 gauge, and the following year the SC 12 gauge with 100 straight.