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NRA National Gun Show Returns to Missouri
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NRA National Gun Show Returns to Missouri
After a year's absence, the NRA National Gun Collectors Show and Conference will return to Kansas City in 2002. Hosted once again by the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Association, this year's show is scheduled for July 26-28 at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Mo. The show, the seventh annual event in the series, will feature a variety of rare and historically significant firearms.
Highlighting the festivities will be a keynote address by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre on Saturday evening, July 27, at a banquet and auction to benefit The NRA Foundation's National Firearms Museum Endowment.
Visitors to the show will find much at which to marvel among the displayed collections and dealers' wares. The theme this year is a commemoration of the Centennial of the Philippine Insurrection. Among the displays promised is a collection of the personal effects of an Insurrection veteran. In addition, The Marlin Firearms Collectors Association will present some 18 exhibits featuring Marlin firearms: the small revolvers upon which John Marlin based his firm's initial success, the lever-action repeaters which were much loved by deer hunters and made the company's fortune, and even a firearm that once belonged to "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Other collections will represent armsmakers such as Colt, Smith & Wesson, and High Standard.
"The National Gun Show is among the most visible ways in which NRA makes its programs known to collectors and students of firearms and firearm history," said Whit Fentem, director of the National Firearms Museum. "And it is one of the best media through which to educate the American people concerning their heritage of firearms and responsible firearm ownership."
One highlight of the show will be the presentation of NRA Gun Collectors Committee Awards of Merit for both individual pieces and thematic collections. The most prestigious of these awards, the E. Andrew Mowbray Trophy for Excellence in Exhibitry, is given annually to the exhibit judged "Best in Show." In addition, the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors will present its "Kansas City Scout," a bronze statue awarded to the exhibit judged best by the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors.
The 2002 NRA National Gun Show will be open to the public on Friday, July 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $5. Tickets for the banquet at which Mr. LaPierre will speak may be purchased in advance by calling (913) 642-2863, or at the show, for $35 each.
For information on the 2002 NRA National Gun Show, call Chuck Samuel at (913) 642-2863 or visit the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Web site at www.mvacagunshow.com.
http://www.nra.org/display_content/show_content.cfm?mod_id=51&id=3555
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
After a year's absence, the NRA National Gun Collectors Show and Conference will return to Kansas City in 2002. Hosted once again by the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Association, this year's show is scheduled for July 26-28 at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Mo. The show, the seventh annual event in the series, will feature a variety of rare and historically significant firearms.
Highlighting the festivities will be a keynote address by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre on Saturday evening, July 27, at a banquet and auction to benefit The NRA Foundation's National Firearms Museum Endowment.
Visitors to the show will find much at which to marvel among the displayed collections and dealers' wares. The theme this year is a commemoration of the Centennial of the Philippine Insurrection. Among the displays promised is a collection of the personal effects of an Insurrection veteran. In addition, The Marlin Firearms Collectors Association will present some 18 exhibits featuring Marlin firearms: the small revolvers upon which John Marlin based his firm's initial success, the lever-action repeaters which were much loved by deer hunters and made the company's fortune, and even a firearm that once belonged to "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Other collections will represent armsmakers such as Colt, Smith & Wesson, and High Standard.
"The National Gun Show is among the most visible ways in which NRA makes its programs known to collectors and students of firearms and firearm history," said Whit Fentem, director of the National Firearms Museum. "And it is one of the best media through which to educate the American people concerning their heritage of firearms and responsible firearm ownership."
One highlight of the show will be the presentation of NRA Gun Collectors Committee Awards of Merit for both individual pieces and thematic collections. The most prestigious of these awards, the E. Andrew Mowbray Trophy for Excellence in Exhibitry, is given annually to the exhibit judged "Best in Show." In addition, the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors will present its "Kansas City Scout," a bronze statue awarded to the exhibit judged best by the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors.
The 2002 NRA National Gun Show will be open to the public on Friday, July 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $5. Tickets for the banquet at which Mr. LaPierre will speak may be purchased in advance by calling (913) 642-2863, or at the show, for $35 each.
For information on the 2002 NRA National Gun Show, call Chuck Samuel at (913) 642-2863 or visit the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Web site at www.mvacagunshow.com.
http://www.nra.org/display_content/show_content.cfm?mod_id=51&id=3555
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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