After today, it's all historical.
The really sad thing is that an English citizen cannot buy the pistol. That is the difference between being a subject and a citizen.
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Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows? They're making head lines!
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I told my wife the expected price and she said I could bid on it if I wanted! I am not going to, but that was not the expected answer!
"Nothing ever gets so bad that government "help" can't make it worse." Pat Garrett, March 22, 2014
"HATE IS GOOD, WHEN ITS DIRECTED AT EVIL." PROBASCO, April 20, 2012
I tried to push the envelope, but found that it was stationery.
Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows? They're making head lines!
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ltorlo64, I think you should!
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I recall reading an article where Churchill's bodyguard was issued or given a 1911 during WWII. Churchill asked him about it later and it said his bodyguard showed him a small calibre pistol as his carry piece. Churchill had him get the 1911 and is said to have carried it in his own coat pocket for the duration. The little W&S must have been the little pistol his bodyguard preferred.
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•" We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. " George Orwell
Shortly after Churchill died the BBC did a series of shows with people who knew him.
One was with his WWII bodyguard.
The bodyguard had a Colt .45 and found it too large to carry so Winston took it.
He carried it and practiced with it.
The body guard said that if a German had gotten within 100 yards of Churchill, he would have been a dead man.
The interviewer skeptically asked "100 YARDS", and the bodyguard replied "100 BLOODY YARDS".
Winston had a history of using a pistol as far back as the "River War" in the Sudan where he shot his way out of a crowd of Fuzzy Wuzzies with his Mauser M96.
Reportedly, during WWI during his time in the trenches of France he carried a Colt 1911 Commercial model in a British custom made full flap holster.
Where it went or why he didn't have it in WWII I don't know.
I remember seeing a photo of it some time ago with the holster and belt so i think it's in a museum.
Surprisingly, my wife really wants me to bid on this so I am going to see what I have to do. It would be cool to own.
"Nothing ever gets so bad that government "help" can't make it worse." Pat Garrett, March 22, 2014
"HATE IS GOOD, WHEN ITS DIRECTED AT EVIL." PROBASCO, April 20, 2012
I tried to push the envelope, but found that it was stationery.
Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows? They're making head lines!
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Oops, you snooze you lose. The auction was yesterday. I wouldn't have been able to get it anyway as it went for almost twice (almost $7,500) what I could bid on it.
"Nothing ever gets so bad that government "help" can't make it worse." Pat Garrett, March 22, 2014
"HATE IS GOOD, WHEN ITS DIRECTED AT EVIL." PROBASCO, April 20, 2012
I tried to push the envelope, but found that it was stationery.
Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows? They're making head lines!
NRA Endowment Member
Too bad, that would of been cool to see you get it.
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