The Wall Street Journal notes that 2014 is the bi-centenary of Samuel Colt and
recommends a visit to a museum in Springfield, Missouri;
Colt's innovative early revolving pistols
and John Browning's semiautomatic Colt M1911—the official sidearm of the
U.S. military for seven decades and still considered one of the best
handguns in the world—played important roles in U.S. history. And one of
the best collections of Colt revolvers and M1911s is at the National
Rifle Association's National Sporting Arms Museum in the Bass Pro Shops'
flagship store here.
....Even without the Colt
collection, the museum would still be a lure given its nearly 1,000
pistols, rifles and shotguns dating from the 1600s to today. The walls
of glass cases tell the story of firearms in America—the collection of
rifles alone including such highlights as the Kentucky rifle, Lewis
& Clark's revolutionary air rifle, and the 1903 Springfield
championed by President Theodore Roosevelt after he found his Rough
Riders outgunned in Cuba.
More guns, less whine.
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