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Green Valley Rifle & Pistol Club

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 incorporated in 1955

  • 1930s  informal target shooting on “Green Valley” Drive in Columbia, MO
  • 1955 Wyatt Lane shooting range was purchased 
  • IPSC was started here
  • annually hosts the Bianchi Cup
  • Missouri State IDPA Match
  • State bullseye match
  • Glock regional match
  • Cameron Cup Action Pistol match
  • 1994 Chapman Academy was purchased by the club

Green Valley Rifle and Pistol Club
4350 Academy Rd.
Hallsville, MO 65255

(573) 696-3738

https://www.gvshoot.com/

Fuller Gun Collection

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2.000 guns (not all on display)

July 4, 1954

Chickamauga Battlefield Park, GA

  • 1920s Claud Fuller’s collection began in a Kansas hardware store
  • 1933 Fuller retired to Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • Opened July 4, 1954
  • Over 2,000 firearms (not all on display)
  • FREE – Open almost every day

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
(Claud E. Fuller Arms Collection) 
P.O. Box 2128
Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
(706) 866-9241
http://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm

Waterloo Rifle & Pistol Club

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 24 acres

Moved to current range in 1952

  • founded in 1934 as the Rumseyville Pistol Club
    located on the top floor of a large building in Seneca Falls, NY
  • 1935 Club changed the name to Seneca Falls Rifle and Pistol Club
  • April 1936 became an affiliated member of the NRA
  • member’s only
  • 1952 Homer Jenkins, a long-time member, donated 24 acres of land in Waterloo to the Club
  • 2000 name was changed to Waterloo Rifle and Pistol Club, Inc
  •  indoor and outdoor target practice
  • 84 years, there has never been a firearms related incident

Waterloo Rifle & Pistol Club
1392 West River Rd
Waterloo, NY 13165
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 48
Waterloo, NY 13165


315-539-3361

https://www.waterloorpc.com/

Trinidad Gunsmithing School

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 first offered in 1947

America’s Premier Gunsmithing School.

Oldest gunsmithing program in the United States

  •  first gunsmithing courses were designed and offered at Trinidad State in 1947
    by P.O. Ackley
  • NRA affiliated Gunsmithing school (1 of 4)
  • Offers NRA approved short-term gunsmithing courses
  • – three days to two weeks in length
  • a two year Gunsmithing Degree Program
  • TSJC Summer NRA program
    –  nine weeks
  •  AAS – Gunsmithing
  •  Brownell’s Am Firearms Tech Instructor
  •  Custom Pistolsmithing (1911) Certificate
  •  Gunsmithing Fine Arts
  •  Gunsmithing Technician
  •  NRA Firearms Safety Instructor
  •  Small Arms Level I Certificate

Gunsmithing School at Trinidad State Junior College 
600 Prospect St., Campus Box 331
Trinidad, CO 81082

1.800.621.TSJC
719.846.5011

http://trinidadstate.edu/gunsmithing/

Colorado School of Trades

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20,000 square foot

established in 1947

  • 1947 gunsmith education program established
  • founded by John J. Snyder
  • 1950’s ceased offering all programs but Gunsmithing
  • in the same location since the early 1970’s
  • 1990 purchased by Sawtooth, Inc.
  • 1990 to 2018 Robert E. Martin served as President of Sawtooth, Inc
  • 1992 first offered Associate Degree in Gunsmithing
  • up to 160 students
  • Associate of Occupational Studies Degree in Gunsmithing , 800 total hours
  •  students learn how to succeed in gunsmithing career.
  • student-run CST Rifle & Pistol Club
  • just a few miles from Denver

School training students in the Artisan Craft of Gunsmithing

Colorado School of Trades
575 HOYT ST., LAKEWOOD, CO 80215

(303) 233-4697 EXT. 11

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Roaring Camp Gun Collection – Harolds Club

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3,000 guns, of which about 2,000 were displayed

1935 – 1993

Reno, NV

  • February 23, 1935 Harolds Club in a tiny space in Reno
  • famed billboards saying “Harolds Club or Bust” erected across the world
  • Roaring Camp was a specific room in Harolds Club
  • 1960s, the collection included some 3,000 guns, of which about 2,000 were displayed in the Roaring Camp Room, the Silver Dollar Bar, and elsewhere
  • 1964 I-80 freeway built
  • 1967 Raymond I. “Pappy” Smith died (80)
  • 1993 The Fitzgerald Group had bought Harolds Club from the Summa Corporation
  • May 3, 1994 the collection was sold to the Butterfield & Butterfield auction house of San Francisco and the guns were auctioned off

the original gun collection

  • 1946 Raymond Stagg, opened the Roaring Camp Club
  • The original gun collection
  • a few blocks from Harolds

http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/harolds-club-roaring-camp-gun-collection

Roaring Camp Gun Collection

  • John Fremont
  • Kit Carson
  • Jedediah Smith
  • .44 Colt owned by silent film cowboy star William S. Hart
  • pistols used in a Sept. 13, 1859 duel in which California Chief Justice David S. Terry fatally shot U.S. Sen. David C. Broderick
  • numerous Kentucky rifles
  • four-barreled flintlock
  • mid-nineteenth century percussion revolvers
  • revolvers possibly used by outlaw Jesse James
  • almost every Colt manufactured between 1836 and 1902
  • pistols carried by Napoleon when he invaded Russia
  • .32 caliber Smith & Wesson owned by Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
  • 1850 combination rifle and shotgun made for King William of Holland