About Me: A certified yet non-professional gunsmith learning the trade through trail and inspiration

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Interesting Firearm Photos XXXX

When Jefferey Alan Lash died suddenly in 2015 he left behind a mystery, more than 1200 guns and more than 6 tons of ammunition. No one knows where, when or how he acquired the cache.






This gold plated, engraved Walther PP was once owned by Adolf Hitler. It has been rumored that he used this gun to commit suicide, but many historians have their doubts. They believe he used his standard sidearm which was a service grade Walther PP.




This rifle below is an HK 91 used in the North Hollywood Shootout. The rifle was disabled toward the end of the engagement in the Bank of America north parking lot by a strike to the magazine well. The rifle suffered two additional strikes, one through the upper receiver cover and the second through the attached magazine, although these strikes would appear to have happened once Phillips had discarded the weapon into the Chevrolet's trunk.

The late American Navy Seal Sniper Chris Kyle, somewhere in Iraq



Behind the scenes with Steve McQueen during the filming of Nevada Smith, 1965/66


The bluing tanks at the old Winchester New Haven plant....

The Pritchard-Greener Revolver Bayonet mounted to the Webley revolver





King George V of Great Britain is pictured hunting a tiger during the 10-day expedition in Nepal in 1911 


Sometimes taggers get it right





A U.S. Soldier fires his M16, somewhere in Vietnam



1929, The funeral pallbearers at Wyatt Earps funeral: to the far right is Western movie star Tom Mix, in the middle is Western Movie Star William S. Hart (tall one) to the left of Hart is former Mayor of Tombstone John Clum.




Some real battlefield pick-up AKs confiscated in Afganistan