Calling Forth Act (1792)
2022-05-02 00:00 UTC
May 2, 1792 The United States Congress passes the Calling Forth Act, clarifying the procedures and the circumstances under which the president can call state militia into service.
This helped end the Whiskey Rebellion
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Alan Gottlieb - Born
2022-05-02
Alan Gottlieb – Born
May 2, 1947
2A Activist

1971 Founded the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (at 24 yrs old)
1975 Founded of the Second Amendment Foundation

Will Rogers Born (1879)
2022-05-05 00:00

Alan Shepard "Freedom 7" 1st American in space (1961)
2022-05-05
May 5, 1961
NASA astronaut Alan Shepard aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket and Orion Capsule
A Marine helicopter picked up Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 capsule in the Atlantic Ocean after his first American sub-orbital flight

Hudson Maxim (74) Died
2022-05-06 00:00
Hudson Maxim(February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927)
Invented Smokeless Gun Powder (in the USA) in 1890
*Brother of the Machine Gun Inventor
**Uncle of the Suppressor Inventor
***No left hand (he blew it off inventing explosives)
#SmokelessPowder
#GunPowder
#Maxim

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Dick Casull - Died (87)
2022-05-06
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
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Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov - Died
2022-05-06
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov – Died
April 9, 1894 – May 6, 1986
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russia
1945 – SKS

John Marlin (born)
2022-05-06
May 6, 1836 – July 1, 1901
During the American Civil War – worked at the Colt plant in Hartford
1863 – Starting making pistols in New Haven, Connecticut
1881 – lever-action repeating rifle

sons Mahlon Henry and John Howard took over the company after their father’s death in 1901

John Lott - Born
2022-05-08
John Lott – Born
May 8, 1958
2A Activist – Researcher
founded the Crime Prevention Research Center

U.S. Post Office established permanently (1794)
2022-05-08
U.S. postal system established in 1775
Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general
June 1788 Postal Clause
Post Office
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, empowers Congress “To establish Post Offices and Post Roads”. – Ma roads
September 26, 1789 – Washington appointed Samuel Osgood as the first Postmaster General under the Constitution
May 8, 1794 (1 Stat. 354), continued the Post Office indefinitely.
1800 Post Office moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C

July 1, 1971 United States Postal Service Founded
an “establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States

Pima Air Space Museum opens to public (1976)
2022-05-08
Opened to the public in May 8, 1976

September 11, 1968 -320 acres of BLM Land given to Pima County for the museum for $800
March 22, 1969 – Republic of India retired the last operational Consolidated B-24 Liberator and gave it to the museum
April 27, 1969, thirty-one days and 11,000 miles after leaving India
approximately 30 acres of the new park for the initial museum site
August 1973 – acquired the last of the World War II barracks buildings at Davis-Monthan
Opened to the public in May 8, 1976
Opened with 48 aircraft on display
World’s largest non-government funded aerospace museum
127 acres
1982 first hangar built
November 11, 1982 – Titan silo was deactivated
1984 – 390th Memorial Museum opened
May 8, 1986 – Titan Missile Museum opened to the public
1987 second hangar built for administrative offices, library, archives, collections storage and a small exhibit gallery for the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
1990 – restoration hangar built
1992 – name of the museum was changed to “Pima Air & Space Museum”
1992 third hangar built – World War II aircraft & B-24J Liberator
1994 fourth hangar built
1995 – name of the foundation was changed to “The Arizona Aerospace Foundation.”
1999 – Space Gallery opened
2006 – Hangar 1 Expanded
2010 – Hangar 1 expanded again (20,000sq feet)
2015 given the second Boeing 787 aircraft to be built
2016 given the first McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital
2020 – 350+ aircraft
100,000 square feet of indoor display space

Tucson, AZ

Indiana ends prohibition on Open Carry (2017)
2022-05-09
Indiana ends prohibition on Open Carry
May 9, 2017

Jeff Cooper - Born
2022-05-10
Jeff Cooper
John Dean “Jeff” Cooper
May 10, 1920 – Sept 25, 2006 (86)
U.S. Marine
Creator of “modern technique” of handgun shooting
1962 – Coined term “hoplophobia” a fear of guns – Developed the conditions of readiness in which such a weapon can be carried – Developed the Color Code of Mental Awareness – Developed the 4 Rules of Gun Safety
1976 – founded the American Pistol Institute (API) in Arizona
(later renamed Gunsite Academy)
1976 – Founding President and Honorary Lifetime Chairman of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC)
1983 – Conceived & Designed the Bren Ten pistol around the 10mm Auto
1997 – Steyr Mannlicher produced the “Scout Rifle” to his specifications
#Gunsite
#Arizona2A
#GunHistory
#FirearmInstructor
#FirearmInventor
#FirearmTraining
#JeffCooperss

1st battery-powered water gun patented (1980)
2022-05-10
Larami UZI

May 10, 1980 Alan Amron patented first battery-powered automatic water gun
Used by: Larami, LJN Entertech, Tyco, Mattel, Buddy L, Coleco, Playtime and Blue Box toys

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US Senate Rejected Background Checks at Gun Shows (1999)
2022-05-12 00:00
May 12, 1999
US Senate rejected 51 to 47 a Democratic proposal that would have required background checks for firearms sales at gun-shows.
Now, 18 years later, we are under this attack again, but Washington, Oregon and Nevada have already fallen to un-nessessary infringement
Learn our past, fight
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #LearnHistory #GunLaws#WTFOregon #WayToFoldWashington
#WTFNevada

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Gun Show Bill REJECTED
May 12, 1999
US Senate rejected 51 to 47 a Democratic proposal that would have required background checks for firearms sales at gun-shows.
A GOP proposal for voluntary checks passed 53 to 45.
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Eric Sykes - Died
2022-05-12
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes –
Instructor
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Children of Fallen Patriots Day
2022-05-13 00:00
A day to honor the families our Fallen Heroes have left behind – especially their children

Nikolay Makarov (74) Died
2022-05-13
Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988
Designer of Makarov Pistol
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns

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Arthur William Savage (Born)
2022-05-13
Arthur William Savage
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms

Marlin Repeating Arms

United States v Miller (1939)
2022-05-15
United States v MillerMay 15, 1939
The United States Supreme Court decided today, in 1939, that the 1934 National Firearms Act does not violate the 2nd Amendment
Since then, this decision has been used to validate most federal level gun control legislation
Do your own research on the Miller decision.
Learn, then act. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
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#GunHistory #FirearmsLaws #LearnOurPast#MillerDecision #2ndAmendment

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Silencer for Firearms - Patent Filed 1910
2022-05-16
May 10, 1910 Silencer for Firearms – Patent Filed

Russia Sends 100,000 AK47 to Venezuela (2005)
2022-05-17 00:00
May 17, 2005Russia and Venezuela signed a contract for 100,000 Russian assault rifles to be provided to the South American nation.
Am I the only one that wants a Venezuelan AK ?
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #AK47
#AK47BuyersGuide

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International Museum Day
2022-05-18
Every year since 1977
International Council of Museums (ICOM)
2009 = 20,000 museums in 90 countries
2012 = 30,000 museums in 129 countries

Daniel Wesson (Born)
2022-05-18
Daniel B. Wesson
May 18, 1825 – Aug 4, 1906
USA

the Volcanic – the first repeating rifle
1854 patented Rimfire cartridge

Last Day to file paperwork for Full Auto Machine guns in 1986
2022-05-18
Never forget
Fight for change36 years ago, tomorrow, was the date the Hughes Amendment to the 1986 Gun Owners Protection Act became effectiveThe amendment effectively prohibited new manufacture of machine guns by private citizen in the United States
This can be reversed, when we demand it

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Firearm Owners Protection Act (1986)
2022-05-19 00:00
Firearm Owners Protection ActMay 19, 1986
United States federal law that revised the Gun Control Act of 1968. – Banned the sale & manufacture of Full Auto (NFA) weapons after the date of enactment May 19, 1986 – Ended record keeping on ammunition sales
– “Safe passage” provision allows travel with firearms through states w/ strict gun control laws
– Forbid the U.S. Government or any agency of it, from keeping any records linking non-NFA firearms to their owners
– Records of NICS Check are legally required to be destroyed after 24 hours
It was NOT all bad, but the #HughesAmendment certainly was
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"Buffalo Bill" Cody's first Wild West Show (1883)
2022-05-19
May 19, 1883
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska
launching a genre of outdoor entertainment that thrived for three decades and survived, in fits and starts, for almost three more
“Westward the course of empire takes its way.”
Annie Oakley broke ground when she and her husband and manager, Frank Butler, joined Buffalo Bill early in 1885
Lillian Smith toured as a teenager with Buffalo Bill, disappeared for a while from public view, then resurfaced in Mexican Joe’s and other Wild Wests as “Princess Wenona, the Indian Girl Shot.”

Colorado Gun Collectors Association Gun Show 56th Annual
2022-05-19 08:00 - 2022-05-22 17:00
From Medieval to Revolutionary War, Civil War, Scheutzen, WW1 and WWII
56th Annual Marlin Collectors Association, Ltd. Meeting!
The Sharps Collectors Association hold their annual meeting in conjunction with our show and the Colt Collectors have their spring board meeting at our show

When:May 19-22, 2022The Denver Mart
401 East 58th Avenue
Denver, Colorado, 80216CGCA Gunshow hours open to the public:Saturday, May 21, 2022, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday, May 22, 2022, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Public Admission $15 at the door!http://www.cgca.com
over 800 eight foot tables

The Colorado Gun Collectors Gun Show is held once a year and is considered one of the finest collectors shows in the world. The CGCA is among the charter members of the National Association of Arms Shows (NAAS) and we conform to and in most cases exceed their guidelines and regulations for safety, security and quality. We have targeted our show at collectors and in addition to attracting antique and modern collectible arms and accessories, we encourage authentic, original cowboy and American Indian artifacts and quality western art. We have a Quality Control and Safety Committee that visits every table and display to assure compliance with our regulations.

NRA Cincinnati Revolt (1977)
2022-05-21
Today in 1977, membership of the NRA voted out the old board, and changed the direction of the organization
#NRA #CincinnatiRevolt
#ThoseWhoActChangeTheFuture
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #RepealTheNFA #LearnGunHistory

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Titan II Missile Museum opened to the public
2022-05-21
Titan II Missile Museum

Sahuarita, AZ

Air Force Facility Missile Site 8
Titan II ICBM Site 571-7
571st Strategic Missile Squadron (SMS)
390th Strategic Missile Wing (SMW)

1963 – became operational
November 11, 1982 – 571-7 came off alert
February of 1983 – concept of museum began
1984 – deactivated
September 1985 – Silo given to Pima County for a Museum
May 21, 1986 – Titan Missile Museum opened to the public
run by the nonprofit Arizona Aerospace Foundation
1994 – declared a National Historic Landmark

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