Looking for a one-of-a-kind Christmas gift that doesn’t involve dealing with supply chain issues from importing overseas goods? Good news, at least as long as your Christmas budget is much bigger than mine. There are some very cool guns coming up for auction soon, and to add to the “wow” factor, they’re coming from the personal collection of the late actor, 2A activist, and (most importantly) Marine veteran R. Lee Ermey; the Gunny himself.
I was never more than an acquaintance of Ermey, but we would always see each other and chat at SHOT Show, the NRA Annual Meeting, and any other event where we found ourselves in the same place. Our conversations were always way too brief, and I felt the same way about the occasions when I was able to interview him for Cam & Co. You could spend hours with Ermey and only scratch the surface of his amazing life, after all, and I was lucky to get 15 minutes.
I miss R. Lee Ermey, and I know a lot of other folks do too. I think it’s pretty cool that some of Ermey’s private collection will
soon be auctioned off, with a portion of the proceeds being donated by Ermey’s family to the Young Marines.
The auction kicks off on GunBroker.com on November 6th, and my guess is that the bidding is not going to be for the faint of heart and the light of wallet. Among the first items on the auction block; Gunny’s
Colt 1976 Bicentennial 3 Gun set, featuring a Python, Single Action Army, and Dragoon. This isn’t in mint condition, by the way. The Python in particular has “significant wear, scratches, and chipped grip since Lee used it, a lot!”
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