NRA Firearms Museum
 

Tried to visit Tom Armstrong, through a comedy of errors it did not work out. On the way back I stopped by the National Rifle Association Firearms Museum; it is pretty good.

The museum has a lot of guns that we like, most information is basic, will give what I saw or you could look up there. Many were just angled enough that the light did not hit it correctly for me to see serial numbers.

DWM 1902 carbine, very nice shape, except the front grip strap was very worn? (donated by Edward Holba) That was the only one I wrote that information down.
DWM commercial; they said it was sn 5586 and was from WW1 era, I was not so sure.
Swiss Bern, sn 17543
1914 Erfurt artillery, has a side inscription on the left that has the Germans name, rank and regiment engraved
DWM Navy (looked too nice to me, but might just be a mint piece)
DWM 1918 artillery
DWM 1917 artillery with red nine grips
Borchardt, said the serial n umber was 75837 (Ron, that number seems too high to me?)

In a large show case they had a diorama with 3 US soldiers, had a bunch of captured equipment, lots of lugers and P38’s; following was the brief description you could read in their computer
Artillery sn 9639
Mauser 8015
DWM 4747

WW1 era (no yr mentioned) with a 1920 property stamping and unit marking of JR 12.9

P38 byf 42 sn 9638
Byf 41
1936 Krieghoff

Baby nambu’s 3877 and a reblued one that was in the movie Letters to Iwo Jima sn 3011

FN model 1900; factory engraved with mother of pearl grips, owned by Teddy Roosevelt

PP sn 368980

PPK sn 213936k (PP or PPK)
Pistol was confiscated from a member of a Nazi saboteur who landed from several (?) U-boats in a couple of teams (2 teams I think)

"Borchardt, said the serial number was 75837 (Ron, that number seems too high to me?)"

Ed,
That is a common mistake, 75837 is the patent number stamped on the forward toggle link.

Was there last year, liked the MP40's and several large sets of elephant tusk's......

A stop at the NRA firearms museum in Fairfax,VA is always a good idea.:thumbup:
Well, it's just about a 35 -40 minutes drive away from my place where I live. They have a nice 50 yards indoor range, too.
(I guess 15 lanes).