July 4 in Firearms History

3 dates for gun owners on July 4

  • Remembered 1
  • Military 1
  • Birthday 1
  1. Remembered1826 · 200 years ago

    Thomas Jefferson (83) Died

    April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826Thomas Jefferson was born

    third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809

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  2. Military1905 · 121 years ago

    Rock Island Arsenal Museum opened 1905

    Rock Island Arsenal Museum was established in 1905

    opened to the public on July 4, 1905

    • October 1, 1903 - Chief of Ordnance sent fifteen boxes of ordnance
      1904 after St. Louis World’s Fair - weapons confiscated during the Philippine Insurrection and taxidermy horse specimens sent to RI
    • 1909 - The Catalogue of the Ordnance Museum, Rock Island Arsenal published
    • July 4, 1919 museum reopened after WWI in its original location
      Now called the Rock Island Arsenal Museum
    • May 1948 - Reopened after WWII in Building 60
    • November 4, 1959 - renamed the John M. Browning Memorial Museum
      1962 - all U.S. Army Museums were placed under the authority of the U.S. Army Center of Military History
    • July 1, 1986 - renamed the Rock Island Arsenal Museum
  3. Birthday1939 · 87 years ago

    Emil Franzi (78) Born

    Emil Franzi’s passing marks the end of an era. He was a lion in word, deed and spirit. There are few men like him around anymore. - Bruce Ash
    (July 4, 1939 - June 7, 2017)

    Emil Franzi died on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 after a battle with cancer.
    He was 78.

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