Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD)

April 6, 2022

Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD) was started back in the early ‘90’s to put a face on Illinois gun owners. Up until that time the media had portrayed gun owners and those who believed in the Second Amendment as some knuckle dragging Neanderthal throw backs, barely worthy of being called humans. IGOLD helped change that although the mainstream media still labels gun owners that way, when they can get away with it.

https://www.isra.org/Events/Annual-Events/iGOLD

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

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

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

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