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June 16, 2004

It's Mostly All About Guns

Mark Yost writes in the Opinion Journal today of a firearms museum in Kentucky:

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--When visitors walk into the new Frazier Historical Arms Museum, the first thing they see is an 1880s Gatling gun. But if they think this is merely another gun museum, they soon learn otherwise. For after touring the three floors of gallery space, visitors not only have a clear understanding of the evolution of armaments but of the historical events in which they were used. And that's what sets this museum--which opened May 22--apart.
The museum is the brainchild of Owsley Brown Frazier of the Brown-Foreman liquor empire. No mere hobbyist, Mr. Frazier and his guns are held in high regard by serious collectors. That's why Britain's Royal Armouries have made the Frazier Historical Arms Museum their U.S. home.

Read the whole thing. This museum sounds awsome (dude) with arms (not just guns) dating back to the Middle Ages.

Here's the museum web site. It's rather thin. Hopefully they'll put a lot more up online soon.

Posted by Jeff Soyer at June 16, 2004 03:43 PM

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Yeah, I read the piece in the journal today. Whats interesting for me (and sort of deja vuish) is that this past weekend I took the son (pictured on the Tarazet, masthead) to the NRA Firearms Museum for the first time. As he and his mom were checking out the gift store (which is pretty cool, btw) I picked up a copy of the museum pamphlet and read it for the first time. It says that the NRA museum holds the 2nd largest collection of firearms in the country. I was wondering where the largest might be and then read this article today. No word on whether it is the largest, but still, the timing is erie

Posted by: countertop at June 16, 2004 05:53 PM

Another very large collection is on display at the LaPorte Indiana Historical Society. This collection is considered to be the third largest antique firearms collection in the world, built around a collection willed to the city in 1921. It was added to since with a Thompson submachine gun taken from a bootlegger by the sheriff and war trophies brought home by county residents. I particularly recall early matchlocks and harmonica pistols from the 1860s.

Posted by: triticale at June 17, 2004 01:08 PM

I think that THIS is the largest

Posted by: dave at June 17, 2004 05:54 PM

Dear Jeff:

Thank you!

Posted by: Steven Malcolm Anderson at June 18, 2004 03:10 PM

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It's Mostly All About Guns

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