Working with Guns Recovered from Ground Zero on 9/11

By Logan Metesh

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- As a museum professional, I’ve had the opportunity to handle some remarkable pieces of American history and the three that I want to talk to you about today all relate to September 11th.

The first piece is a Kimber Classic Royal 1911 pistol that was in the customs warehouse in the basement of the World Trade Center waiting to be exported to a company in Italy that was supposed to take possession of those guns and distribute them over there. A number of years passed and the gentleman who had accepted those guns realized the importance of them to American history and worked with Navy Arms to get one of those guns back into the US and donate it to the museum at NRA HQ. I was working there when that gun came in and I’ve had the opportunity to handle it and be a part of its story and its history.

When you see that gun, you wouldn’t know that it was in the World Trade Center and in that carnage because the gun is in mint condition. That’s because it was …Read the Rest

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