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Conservation-restoration work on historic firearms is a series of procedures designed to stabilize, repair or restore parts, and stop deterioration. [1] Stabilizing a firearm means establishing the ideal environment conditions, removing corrosion, replacing missing components, and repairing broken parts.
According to the district's 1987 nomination document: The district is historically significant for two reasons. First its core encompasses the extensive surviving portions of the industrial complex developed by the former Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the nation's foremost late 19th- and early 20th-century armament manufacturers.
Restoration of a historic cemetery in the Hoosier National Forest began recently, with some of the descendants of those interred in the Roberts & Thomas Cemetery helping. The cemetery is ...
The J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum is located in Claremore, Oklahoma. The Museum houses over 20,000 firearms and firearm related items. The Davis Museum contains guns from all around the world including Kentucky rifles, a Gatling gun, black-powder guns of all types, cannons, rare Colts, Winchesters, elephant, whaling, and outlaw guns.
Trying to "demystify" firearms for Rhode Islanders, the state Department of Environmental Management offers a free introduction to firearms class each year.. This year's class will be held Sunday ...
Sep. 30—New York State's new gun law had a side effect that's causing concern among living history organizations like Old Fort Niagara. Among new rules that went into effect Sept. 1, parks and ...
The Rt. Rev. George D. Gillespie consecrated the church on January 10, 1884. The church contains historic stained-glass windows representing the Holy Sacrament, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary, the Mother of God. In 1996, the church building underwent extensive restoration and renovations, much of which was completed by parishioners.
William Keith Neal (11 November 1905 – 10 April 1990) was an English writer, collector and enthusiast who amassed what is considered to be one of the greatest private collections of antique firearms ever assembled.