Treasures of the NRA National Firearms Museum: Revised and Updated Second Edition

Established in 1935, the NRA National Firearms Museum houses and displays a collection of more than six thousand remarkable firearms, many of which are deemed by curators to be priceless works of art. In this detailed full-color volume, you will enter a world populated by only the finest examples of gunmakers’ art, as well as firearms that have graced the castle walls of the royal families of Great Britain. Illustrated in larger-than-life photography, Treasures of the NRA National Firearms Museum also includes portraits of:President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s shotgun for skeet shootingA rifle made specially for an eighteenth-century emperor with a withered handPresident Teddy Roosevelt’s collection of big-game hunting riflesA shotgun owned by Annie Oakley, the most gifted markswoman of all timeAnd hundreds more exquisite photographs of historically important firearmsThis tome offers for the first time photographs of many spectacular works of art from the recently donated Robert E. Petersen Collection. This 425-gun collection is world renowned for its beauty, elegance, and variety of styles of engravers’ art. With exquisite photography, Treasures of the NRA National Firearms Museum brings the splendor of royalty and wealth to your home, giving a bigger and closer look at these firearms than ever before published.