Shreck, if the rifle was won at a convention NRA will have records of that. if at a Friends of the NRA banquet , that opens it wide . the level of quality makes me think more towards a Banquet.

the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~