{"id":391,"date":"2009-08-03T18:12:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=391"},"modified":"2009-08-03T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:12:44","slug":"gun-auction-madness-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gun-auction-madness-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"GUN AUCTION MADNESS CONTINUES"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dunno whether \u201cit\u2019s something in the water\u201d or something in the Kool-Aid, but yet another gun auction has ended with an insane amount of money changing hands.<\/p>\n

Remember the 1982 movie \u201cBlade Runner\u201d with Harrison Ford?\u00a0 It\u2019s set ten years from now in the future, the year 2019, and Ford is an LAPD detective whose assignment is chasing down \u201creplicants,\u201d humanoids with super strength and fantastic agility who turn ugly and murder real people.<\/p>\n

Prop-makers out-did themselves with the futuristic weapon they created for him. They took an inexpensive Charter Arms Bulldog, a five-shot .44 Special revolver designed for concealed carry, and enveloped it in the receiver of a Steyr-Mannlicher SL .222 Remington caliber sporting rifle with a flat \u201cbutter-knife\u201d bolt handle. The double set triggers of the rifle replaced the normal trigger group of the Charter .44.\u00a0 A brown plastic grip with finger grooves was fashioned by the propmasters, and capped off at the bottom with an aluminum butt-plate.\u00a0 An LED module went under the barrel, which did nothing but flicker red and green and look, well, \u201cfuturistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

One commentator, Kevin McPherson, said it resembled a revolver with a smog control device. You can find his hilarious send-up of the whole thing, titled \u201cBlade Runner 101,\u201d\u00a0 on line in the September\/October 2008 edition of American Cop magazine<\/a>. I thought it was a wonderful read.<\/p>\n

Well, old friend Jim Shults passes along the word that this prop gun was just auctioned off for $258,750.\u00a0 That price does not include buyer commission, so the estimated total due when the auctioneer\u2019s hammer came down is in the range of $270,000.<\/p>\n

Was it Richard Pryor or Robin Williams who said, \u201cCocaine is nature\u2019s way of telling you that you have too much money\u201d?\u00a0 This item could fit that category, too.<\/p>\n

Scroll down a bit lower on this blog, and you\u2019ll find that the mansion of the great gun designer John Browning is up for sale in Ogden, Utah. It would make one heck of a bed-and-breakfast catering to gun fanciers.\u00a0 Perhaps whomever buys that piece of genuine American history can get together with the understandably anonymous individual who paid $270K for the \u201cBlade Runner\u201d prop, and put that \u201cgun\u201d prominently on display.<\/p>\n

Then they can advertise their new B&B as \u201cthe haunted mansion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause I\u2019m betting that guests will be able to hear the ghost of John M. Browning retching.
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Photo courtesy: Profiles In History Auction House<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I dunno whether \u201cit\u2019s something in the water\u201d or something in the Kool-Aid, but yet another gun auction has ended with an insane amount of money changing hands. Remember the 1982 movie \u201cBlade Runner\u201d with Harrison Ford?\u00a0 It\u2019s set ten years from now in the future, the year 2019, and Ford is an LAPD detective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}