Exhibit for July 30, 31 & Aug. 1, 2010:

 

John Wayne’s Winchester Big-Loop carbine from the movie Stagecoach.

 

            If you are a Western movie fan, this is a gun you’ve seen in the hands of the Duke,

            as he twirled it to flag down the stagecoach at the film’s beginning scene. Like               

most movie studio guns, it likely had on-screen roles in other Wayne classics like                      

True Grit and El Dorado.

 

            Lorne Greene’s Winchester Model 1873 carbine from the TV series, Bonanza.

 

            This nickel-plated carbine was there on the Ponderosa with Hoss and Little Joe!

            Bonanza was one of the longer-running western TV shows that first aired in 1959

            and ended in 1973 after a run of 430 episodes had aired.

             

            Chuck Connor’s Winchester Model 1892 rifle from the TV show, The Rifleman

 

            Come by and look over the famous Winchester rifle that TV sheriff Chuck Connors                  

fired at the beginning of each show.  Unlike John Wayne’s Winchester, this gun             

has a special set-screw fitted to hit the trigger as the loop comes up to a closed position.

 

            Clint Eastwood’s Walker revolvers from the film, The Outlaw Josey Wales.

                       

            Once considered the most powerful handgun in the world, one of these .44 caliber                    

sixguns also was used by John Wayne and Kim Darby in True Grit.  Converted                      

from percussion ignition to use blank cartridges, these heavy revolvers were                  

originally designed to be carried in saddle holsters.

 

You can visit the National Firearms Museum exhibit at the Capitol Expo Center all three days.

If you come to the gunshow, also remember that “Hollywood Guns,” our special exhibition of movie guns

will be open (with free admission) at the NRA Headquarters just up the road. 

 

For more information, call (703) 267-1600 or email nfmstaff@nrahq.org.