From: arc@cco.caltech.edu (Aaron Ray Clements)
Subject: Re: a universal RIGHT to bear arms? NOT!
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rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat) writes:


>||	Wrong again, but if you want proof: turn on your TV and look
>||for a show starring Chuck Connors.  It was called, "The Rifleman."
>||Time how fast he can fire that old lever-action rifle.

>|Believe it or not, I remember seeing an advertisement for someone
>|selling one of these; apparently Winchester produced a bunch of
>|these commercially to commemorate the television show. I believe it was 
>|being sold as a handgun because of the barrel length and lack of a stock.

>I might be mistaking the above weapon for the gun used by Steve
>McQueen in "Wanted: Dead or Alive." If so, sorry. Did Winchester
>make any commemorative models of the rifle used by Chuck Connors
>in the movie? Chuck Connors was an NRA member before he died recently...

I don't know for sure if Winchester made any commemeratives.  If I
recall correctly, the rifle itself was a .44-40 Model 92 with an
oversized loop lever.  I don't think Winchester makes this rifle
any more.  Rossi make a Model 92 look-alike in .38 Special and
.357 Magnum.

aaron
arc@cco.caltech.edu
