N&W in 1903 -- Winchester Rifles

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In a message dated 2/9/2008 7:28:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:



> [Today it is "Wild and Wonderful West Virginia," but in 1903 it was "Wild 

> and Woolly West Virginia."  They boarded a passenger train with Winchester 

> rifles!  Where was the TSA?]

>  

> Gordon Hamilton

> =======================================

In 1967, I was on leave while in the Air Force and had taken the train to 
Florida to visit relatives. While there, I retrieved a 12 gauge double barrel 
shotgun I got when I was 15 and still living in Victoria, Va., and which I had 
left with my grandparents in Fla. when I shipped out to the Philippines in late 
'64. I came back on the train with that shotgun in a cheap canvas case. When I 
got to D.C., I walked right through the busy lobby of Union Station to the 
cab stand outside and got a cab. Nobody on the train, in Union Station, or even 
the cab driver gave me a second look. But that was back in 1967, when this was 
still a free country. 

Greg Harrod


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