Ultimate gun safe

[kcowyo]

I received the following pics in an email today. No idea if it's true or not but it certainly is a spectacle.

The late Charlton Heston's basement -

 

[Spikepretorius]

Holy moly!
That's enough to make me start seeing the reasoning behind anti-gun legislation. What the hell is a private citizen doing with stuff like that?
Don't get me wrong. I'm extremely pro-gun but sheez man...............

 

[FourByLand]

yeah, you would be surprised with what the military siezed in Tucson... scary.

 

[articulate]

The couches add a nice cozy feeling to a room full of cold blue steel.

 

[tdesanto]

The couches add a nice cozy feeling to a room full of cold blue steel.

Good point. What, do you sip congac while admiring the flame thrower on the far wall?

 

[ntsqd]

No telling how many of those were de-mil'd. Though I'd assume that he would've wanted functional pieces for his collection, that doesn't mean that they were.

 

[HanzoSteel]

To bad Michael Moore didn't get this tour.

 

[goodtimes]

Well, some of us collect rocks, some collect art, he collects guns (I collect, uh...bills).


Of course, it hasn't escaped me that his "gun safe" is bigger than my house. No, really.

 

[Dave]

Good point. What, do you sip congac while admiring the flame thrower on the far wall?

When I first saw the pictures, I thought the furniture looked out of place. Not because it's there in the first place, but because it looks like old waiting room furniture. Some nice leather would have been more appropriate....

 

[crawler#976]

The photos of the arms are real, but were not owned by Charlton Heston.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/gunvault.asp

Indeed this was an awesome collection of very rare firearms that deserve to be saved, and in fact, many should be in the National Firearms Museum. They were sold at auction for $127,000,000.00

http://auctionpublicity.com/2008/04/08/julia-firearms-auction-takes-record-127-million/

It is 100% legal to own, fire, and collect automatic firearms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

Collectors such as Mr. Stern paid an enormous sum in taxes for the privilege to own those guns. As a legal automatic weapon is bought and sold, the price of the weapon increase due to the taxes paid as well as it's intrinsic value to collectors. As an example, J&G Sales here in Prescott sells weapons to qualified buyers. The transfer tax is $200.0 each time it's sold. The rifle below is selling for just under 12K.

http://www.jgsales.com/product_info...d/414?osCsid=0fd2926aaf52c284d95de09273fa469b

Fully Automatic weapons are used so infrequently in crime as to be statistically insignificant. Collectors that pay the price required for them also pay to have them well secured.

Mark

PS:

Forgot to mention, but we have a gentleman here who collects WII era tracked vehicles, wheeled vehicles, firearms, uniforms and other ephemera. It's rather odd to see a White Scout car driving around town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M3a1022.jpg

 

[Clark White]

Fully Automatic weapons are used so infrequently in crime as to be statistically insignificant. Collectors that pay the price required for them also pay to have them well secured.

Mark

Been a long time since I've dealt with any of those statistics, but I think almost every automatic weapon that IS used in a crime is an illegally modified semi-auto, not a nice collectible at all. :ar15:

Clark

 

[lowenbrau]

I have a smaller version of the same.

Ok, Ok I have a handful of hunting firearms in an unused basement den but I aspire to a larger collection and a swap of the blue shag rug for some marble. I'm wondering if I can tunnel under the front lawn and have a shooting range in my gun room like this one does. That'd be cool!

 

[lowenbrau]

I realize that the door is mostly an architectural feature but did old vault doors really have all the workings and hinges on the outside?

 

[Carlyle]

All I can say is sheer envy!

 

[RAB]

So many brownings :drool: