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White House pistol range, what President?

walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
edited October 2012 in General Discussion
Eight U.S. Presidents have been NRA members. They are Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.[20] Although Nixon disavowed his "Honorary Life Membership" in 1969 and Bush resigned in 1992.
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    99.9% will not know this answer

    Who was the President that had a underground personal pistol range built under the White House.
    It was kept from the press and never made public.

    He use to shoot late at night and weeee hours in the morning when he couldn't sleep.

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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,539 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lincoln tried out the Spencer rifle on the south lawn from what I've read he use to shoot quite regularly on the south lawn
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  • llamallama Member Posts: 2,637 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I'd have to have the end of the bowling alley reinforced and some extra sound proofing put in...

    Wonder how long it takes to process a nfa stamp request if a president wanted ?
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd bet on either Teddy Roosevelt or Kennedy having a range built there.

    TR was known to carry a handgun while president and viewed firearms proficiency as a good skill to possess. In fact he was the driving force behind creation of the CMP.

    Kennedy stayed low key about it, but I'm aware that he also enjoyed guns. According to a retired fed I spoke with he was known to go out on his boat and plink floating targets with one of Colt's then new M16's.

    Colt was in the process of building a presentation version for him using a benchmark serialed rifle (# 050000) at the time os his death. It ended up in the Springfield Armory Museum.
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One summer evening he invited 6 people to shoot a two man team match with him and his wife.
    The President and his wife out scored the highest team by 20 points.
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just got an e-mail from A.L.G.A. inc. to take my medicine and stop drinking.
    I said, I'm not doing anything wrong and this is old news and I'm going to tell them.
    What are they going to do, shoot me.
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  • swopjanswopjan Member Posts: 3,292
    edited November -1
    I'd put Reagan in my top 3 guesses. Although he was anti-gun initially, after a while as President he started strapping on a pistol and joking to the Secret Service that 'in case of trouble, I can help!'
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by swopjan
    ...he started strapping on a pistol...Funny how the reality check of having someone shoot at you will do that. [;)]

    Same with Roosevelt. He was also shot in an assassination attempt.
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The year 1955, I had gotten a call from the president, for an invitation team match at the white house.
    He said, Wallie, bring a friend, preferably a shooter, we are having a two man team match and Carol and I are going to whip yo *.

    I knew I could beat him one on one but his wife was just as good as he was and their combine score was going to be high. And it was.

    We all met at the truck stop and waited for the 4x4's to arrive.

    Yep! The white house was on top of a mountain with a mile long winding dirt road.
    He had built this mansion on this mountain and put in a shooting range under it.
    And guess what color the mansion was, all white.

    Everyone knew about the mansion on the mountain but they didn't know the details and he kept it out the news.

    As for president, he was a President of a company.
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