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Americas Most Wanted

NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Did any of you watch Americas most wanted last night? John Walsh was showing off a beautiful gun collection.One of the guns was a 45acp given to President Richard Nixon by Elvis Presley.There was a tommy gun and about 25 others shown in the background.John Walsh made the comment that it was one of the most beautiful collections he had seen.He gained my respect,Im sure the antigunners will have a field day with him over it.But he sure said it on live TV.

Rugster
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Did anyone see it last night?Maybe it was just me but it looked like in the intro just about all of those MP5's the swat team had were pointed in the general direction of Jim Walsh and the cameraman!It looked like pretty foolish weapon handling.Just wondering if anybody else noticed.[:D]
    krusty
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    just reading on the packing site http://www.packing.org/talk/thread.jsp/31718/ how a few guys bad mouthed John Walsh ! that show has put hundreds of real bad killers , rapists & other assorted scumbums in jail and these guys really trashed Walsh .... even if Walsh was anti-gun I never heard him say he was only a few guys came to his defense ......thats really sad .....I think the guys as straight as an arrow & was really hurt & shocked by the posts
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Darn it, I'd like to have seen that, always up to seeing some nice guns.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    He also ran a tactical "judgment course" and took out three robbers coming out of a bank from behind cover with a semi-auto handgun, and did what appeared to be a tactical reload in the middle of it. Of course, they let him wear a fake badge so it was kosher. Baaahahaha! Apparently he's been practicing, because he sure didn't run the course like a novice. Oh, they helped him a little with editing, but I think Mr. Walsh is a likely suspect for being a law-abiding armed citizen... Heheheheh! Take that, Brady Bunch.

    If Sarah Brady ever runs for office, I'm going to personally launch a campaign against her with the slogan "Don't let your legislature fall into the Wrong Hands!" I don't know whether they gave Mr. Brady a Purple Heart, but has there ever been a wife who accepted a wounded spouse in the cause of freedom with less grace? John Walsh, who lost a son to crime, is practicing tactical reloads while Sarah Brady has her pick-ax out defacing the Bill of Rights.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • bullelkbullelk Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rugster,
    I left you a message on your Springfield M1 Garand post. I have some info for you.
    E-mail me at bullelk@psouth.net

    Gino
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Walsh is ridiculously anti-gun and a left-winger to boot.

    I haven't seen the episode in question yet, but rest assured that he was only promoting firearms ownership from a Law Enforcement Officer point of view.

    Stand And Be Counted
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  • AlerionAlerion Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That was the Secret Service gun collection BTW. Although they called it by some other name... "Gun Library" maybe?

    Tom

    So, just how does rendering me defenseless protect you from violent criminals?
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  • jaoobjaoob Member Posts: 441 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The one that I like was the 4 shot .22 disguised as a cell phone. Agent thought about 100 were made in Europe. I believe Nixon gave Elvis a DEA badge. We would all like to do some trading with "THE KING"

    Jim
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah I think the Secret Service posses the gun collection.But they sure had some sweet weapons.I wonder how they came up with the gold .45acp that Elvis gave Richard Nixon?

    Rugster
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  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:
    Yeah I think the Secret Service posses the gun collection.But they sure had some sweet weapons.I wonder how they came up with the gold .45acp that Elvis gave Richard Nixon?



    I believe "the King" showed-up at the White House personally with it, as a gift to Nixon, wanting to give it to him personally and the Secret Service said "No guns allowed" and took it from him.

    I wonder if Nixon's estate could claim it?

    Rembrandt, you've got political connections? Know anybody connected to the Nixons who might have a legal claim to it? Maybe somebody could arrange a charity auction (on Gunbroker?) if no Nixon heirs wanted it personally?





    Edited by - competentone on 07/15/2002 11:08:27
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No seriously Im pretty sure I have seen pictures of Elvis giving him the gun.

    Rugster
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