March 18 in Firearms History

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    Bill Woodin – Died (92)

    December  16, 1925 – March 18, 2018

    • William Woodin III
    • His grandfather (also named William Woodin) was President Franklin Roosevelt’s first treasury secretary
    • Bill’s Step-Father was a founder of the American Quarter Horse Association
    • bachelor in zoology at the University of Arizona
    • master in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
    • 1950 kingsnake species named after him: lampropeltis pyromelana woodini
    • volunteer for the Desert Museum before it opened
    • 1954 to 1971 – Executive Director Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
    • called “the most promising young naturalist in the United States” by Roy Chapman Andrews, a former American Museum of Natural History director
    • 1955 – co-founder International Ammunition Association
    • active in European Cartridge Research Association
    • compiled “one of the great collections of ammunition in the world,”
    • 1973 Woodin Laboratory built
      3,000-square-foot underground vault
    • 1975 – Consulted on the Kennedy assassination research
    • 160,000 cartridges tracing the evolution of small arms ammunition
    • 1998 co-authored three volumes A History of Modern U.S. Small Arms Ammunition
    • Technical Advisor to and Distinguished Life Member of AFTE
      (Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners)
    • Consultant to the U. S. Army Armament Research and Development Command (Armament Concepts Office)