Inside the Smithsonian Gun Room, aka the National Firearms Collection – VIDEO

Inside the Smithsonian Gun Room, aka the National Firearms Collection – VIDEO

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Washington, D.C. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Better known as the Smithsonian’s Gun Room, what is officially known as the National Firearms Collection is an assemblage of more than 7,000 firearms dating back centuries. They tell the story of the United States and its global impact and reach through historically significant arms, patent models, and more.

Some pieces from the collection are on display, but the vast majority are not.

Entrance to the Smithsonian Gun Room
Entrance to the Smithsonian Gun Room

This is the view you’re greeted with upon entering the Gun Room. It gives a brief glimpse into the remarkable collection that awaits.

This first rack includes a couple of miquelet lock muskets given to President Thomas Jefferson in 1805 by the Bey of Tunis after the Tripolitan Wars. The gift influenced the inclusion of the now-iconic lyrics “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine’s Hymn. Right next to those is an embellished Jaeger rifle that belonged to empress Catherine the Great of Russia. A velvet cheek piece added to this firearm ensured her comfort while shooting.

The yellow and orange guns were given to Thomas Jefferson.
The yellow and orange guns were given to Thomas Jefferson.

Among the numerous racks of guns are ones that have stories, but you have to know what you’re looking for. For example, this percussion double-barrel shotgun was presented to Union Civil War General George Henry Thomas, who was one of the principal commanders in the war’s Western Theater. His shotgun is sitting right next to a beautifully embellished gun made in Versailles, France.

Elaborate French shotgun next to a Civil War presentation shotgun

There are a lot of M1 Garands. And Beretta BM-59 rifles. And a whole bunch of other Garand variations, such as these T44E4’s, this T22E3HB, and a two-digit T20E2.

Different M1 Rifle variants.
Different M1 Rifle variants.

The setup for photography is in a tucked-away little corner, sharing the space with a remarkable collection of swords. There, I photographed a handful of interesting pieces. First up was a LeMat revolver that looks a bit different than the ones you might be used to seeing. That’s because it’s Jean Alexandre LeMat’s patent model for the pinfire variation of the earlier percussion model.

LeMat patent model Revolver
LeMat patent model Revolver

This pair of Dragoon pistols was unique because of their grips, which were silver instead of wood. They were engraved presentation pieces to then-Colonel George Washington Morgan for his “gallantry and high military bearing” during the Mexican-American War in the 1840s.

Pair of Colt Dragoons made as a Mexican War present.
Pair of Colt Dragoons made as a Mexican War present.

Then came a rather unassuming Adams revolver. The butt of the gun is engraved, revealing its impressive provenance. The revolver was presented to Private Francis Brownell who shot and killed the man who shot and killed Colonel Ellsworth while he was removing a Confederate flag from atop the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 24, 1861. Brownell was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions, which is on display in the museum’s galleries. The gun was given to him just 5 days later.

Medal of Honor recipient Frank Brownell's Adams revolver.
Medal of Honor recipient Frank Brownell’s Adams revolver.

Finally, the highlight of my trip was a piece I wasn’t expecting to find: the original patent model created by John Moses Browning for his single-shot rifle. I opened up one of the gun room’s many storage drawers and there it was, in the middle of a bunch of other patent models with a simple hangtag that read, “John M. Browning Patent Model.”

Browning's original patent model.
Browning’s original patent model.

Of course, there’s never enough time in the day to explore it all, and I had to leave before I was satiated. Oh well, I guess that just means I’ll have to make a return trip – and I’ll be sure to bring you along for that one, too!


About Logan Metesh

Logan Metesh is a historian with a focus on firearms history and development. He runs High Caliber History LLC and has more than a decade of experience working for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and the NRA Museums. His ability to present history and research in an engaging manner has made him a sought after consultant, writer, and museum professional. The ease with which he can recall obscure historical facts and figures makes him very good at Jeopardy!, but exceptionally bad at geometry.

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October 16, 2020 at 03:06PM

These are the best USB-C power adapters for your new iPhone 12

These are the best USB-C power adapters for your new iPhone 12

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Your new iPhone 12 will have a USB-C to Lightning cable — but no AC power adapter. Here are some great choices for adapters, if your tech drawer isn’t already full of them.

Apple is trying to reduce its effects on the environment by removing the power adapters from product packaging. This can lead to some confusion for users receiving a USB-C cable for the first time or those new to iPhone.

Using USB-C to charge your device comes with some benefits. The iPhone 8 and newer can fast charge when using USB-C adapters that provide 18W of power, or greater. Apple says fast charging should get you 50% battery in 30 minutes, though that varies depending on the adapter and your iPhone’s battery health.

AppleInsider has gathered the ten best power adapter and charging solutions for a USB-C lifestyle. Using any of these adapters will get you fast charging, but form factor and use case will determine which is best for you.

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Satechi 75W Dual Type-C PD Travel Charger

The Satechi 75W Dual Type-C PD Travel Charger is the ultimate travel companion for your iPhone 12 and USB-C devices. Capable of delivering 60W for fast charging an iPad Pro or MacBook Pro from one USB-C port, and 18W for fast charging your iPhone from the second USB-C port.

This adapter also has two USB-A ports for up to four devices charging from the single adapter. It connects via a cable to the wall outlet, which means the USB ports will be closer to where you are.

The Satechi 75W Dual Type-C Travel Charger is $69.99 on Amazon’s website.

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RAVPower 30W 2-port fast charger

The RAVPower 30W 2-port fast charger is great for those looking to charge their devices and save space. This inexpensive charger can power two devices with a max output of 30W, with the USB-C port capable of 18W.

This power adapter is available for $15.99 on Amazon’s website.

Belkin

Belkin has a USB-C GaN charger capable of delivering 18W fast charging to your iPhone 12 while charging your MacBook Pro or iPad Pro at 60W. The power of gallium nitrate charging means you get all the power of a bigger charger in a more compact design.

This USB-C GaN charger maxes out at 68W when two devices are connected at the same time. It will intelligently pass power to devices for safe and efficient charging.

The Belkin USB-C GaN charger retails for $54.99 on Amazon’s website. It can be configured with an additional USB-C cable for $64.99.

Aukey

Aukey makes a tiny charging adapter called the Aukey Minima. It takes on the form factor of the old 5W Apple USB-A adapter, but offers 18W fast charging over USB-C.

This compact adapter can be bought in black or white, and is available for $14.99 on Amazon’s website.

Amazon

The AmazonBasics 18W One-Port USB-C Wall Charger is as simple as they come. This charger is the bare minimum in requirements for fast charging an iPhone, and is certified with a 1-year limited warranty.

This USB-C adapter is solid white with a small blue LED to indicate it is providing power. The plug folds into the design to make a compact, portable design.

The AmazonBasics 18W adapter is available for $16.99 on Amazon’s website.

Anker Nano

The Anker Nano is a small 20W USB-C plug that will fast-charge an iPhone 12.

Anker PowerPort III Duo

This 36W charger has two USB-C ports. It will fast-charge two iPhones, or if someone in the household has an Android device, it can quick-charge that as well.

The Anker PowerPort III Duo costs $25.99 on Amazon.

HyperJuice

If you want a wall adapter that can serve an entire family’s devices at once, you may want to check out the Hyper Juice 100W charger. It can fast-charge four devices simultaneously, including MacBooks, iPads, iPhones, and more.

However, two of its four ports are USB-A, so this wouldn’t be the best fit if all your charging cables are USB-C.

HyperJuice costs $99 on Amazon.

ZMI zPower Turbo 65W

The ZMI zPower Turbo 65W offers big things in a small package. Powerful enough to handle a MacBook Pro, it’s surprisingly compact at an affordable price.

The ZMI charger costs $19.99 on Amazon.

iClever Fast Charger

If bang for your buck is your priority, it’s hard to beat iClever’s 61W USB-C wall adapter. It can fast-charge your iPhone 12 or power much bigger devices.

The charger ships with a 6.6-ft USB-C-to-USB-C cable, which can power recent MacBooks, the iPad Pro, and iPad Air 4.

The iClever charger costs $15.49 on Amazon.

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October 15, 2020 at 03:36PM

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October 14, 2020 at 09:12PM

The Perfect Pair of Budget Earbuds Are Only $20 Right Now

The Perfect Pair of Budget Earbuds Are Only $20 Right Now

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I’ve tested Mpow products in the past and was always pleasantly surprised at the value to price ratio. They’re quality without breaking the bank. A Prime Day treat from the company is their M30 IPX8 Bluetooth 5.0 Earbuds. They’re just $20 when you clip the coupon and use the code S79Z7QLT.

$20 is a great price for an extra set of earbuds. If you’re running errands or just running and you don’t want to take your most expensive buds on the go these are for you. Quick to pair and easy to bounce between tunes and calls. The M30’s are noise-canceling so ideal for travel and just because they are small and fit snuggly doesn’t mean there’s no power in them. Little buds, big bass. They’re sweat-proof so sport it up and fear not about ruining them. You’ll get about 5 hours off of one charge but 25 hours with the charging case. The only blip is if you’re an Android user you have to adjust the volume on your phone to “maxium” first to get the highest volume out of these. Other than that it’s a solid audio device at a solid price.

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October 14, 2020 at 09:06AM

A YouTube Channel That Reviews Footwear by Cutting It In Half

A YouTube Channel That Reviews Footwear by Cutting It In Half

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Yesterday we covered a footwear designer showing a Nike cut in half for analysis. Today we’ve discovered a YouTube channel that does nothing but cut footwear in half, to analyze the quality and design.

Here Weston Kay, a man who knows leather–he’s the owner of leather goods company Rose Anvil–shows you the insides of a pair of Carhartt work boots.

He starts off by showing you the red flags that you yourself could spot at the store, without cutting into the boots: Disguising low-quality leather as full-grain; visible manufacturing errors with the welt; a poor-quality outsole. Then he gets into the insides, where things kind of go to hell.

Being generally unfamiliar with boot design, I learned a few things by watching the vid. The necessity of reinforcing the heel slip area, for one. I was also surprised to see that there is a footwear design equivalent to the architectural trick of McMansion foyers.

To explain, McMansions often have front doors that open into a two-story open-air space with an impressive-looking, sweeping staircase. The idea is that this feature impresses you into wanting to buy the home. Only after living there for a while do you realize that the space is useless and the staircase needlessly long.

In the case of the Carhartt boots, it’s the voids in the heel. It makes them comfortable when you try them on in the store, likely leading you to buy them. It’s only a few weeks later, when they’ve already got your money, that the heel compresses into oblivion. A neat, and dirty, trick.

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October 13, 2020 at 02:22PM

ACB Calmly Answers Questions While Typing Up Appellate Court Decision And Cooking Dinner For 9

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ACB Calmly Answers Questions While Typing Up Appellate Court Decision And Cooking Dinner For 9

WASHINGTON, D.C.—It was quite a spectacle at the Senate hearing for Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court this morning, as Judge Barrett calmly answered the committee’s questions while cooking dinner for her family of nine with her right hand and typing up an appellate court decision with her left hand.

“That’s a great question, Senator, thank you for asking,” she responded to one line of questioning as she chopped up onions to put them in her stew. “Sorry if I’m crying during my response — it’s just the onions.” She eloquently answered the inquiry while moving on to skinning the potatoes, simultaneously typing up a 50-page decision for the Seventh Court of Appeals with her other hand.

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October 13, 2020 at 12:02PM

Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python

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The incredible amount of data on the Internet is a rich resource for any field of research or personal interest. To effectively harvest that data, you’ll need to become skilled at web scraping. The Python libraries requests and Beautiful Soup are powerful tools for the job. If you like to learn with hands-on examples and you have a basic understanding of Python and HTML, then this course is for you.

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October 13, 2020 at 10:23AM

ListenData: Learn Python for Data Science

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This tutorial would help you to learn Data Science with Python by examples. It is designed for beginners who want to get started with Data Science in Python. Python is an open source language and it is widely used as a high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. It has gained high popularity in data science world. In the PyPL Popularity of Programming language index, Python scored second rank with a 14 percent share. In advanced analytics and predictive analytics market, it is ranked among top 3 programming languages for advanced analytics.

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Python 2 vs. 3

Google yields thousands of articles on this topic. Some bloggers opposed and some in favor of 2.7. If you filter your search criteria and look for only recent articles, you would find Python 2 is no longer supported by the Python Software Foundation. Hence it does not make any sense to learn 2.7 if you start learning it today. Python 3 supports all the packages. Python 3 is cleaner and faster. It is a language for the future. It fixed major issues with versions of Python 2 series. Python 3 was first released in year 2008. It has been 12 years releasing robust versions of Python 3 series. You should go for latest version of Python 3.

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Python is widely used and very popular for a variety of software engineering tasks such as website development, cloud-architecture, back-end etc. It is equally popular in data science world. In advanced analytics world, there has been several debates on R vs. Python. There are some areas such as number of libraries for statistical analysis, where R wins over Python but Python is catching up very fast.With popularity of big data and data science, Python has become first programming language of data scientists.
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October 11, 2020 at 03:51PM

Is Python Becoming More Popular Than Java?

Is Python Becoming More Popular Than Java?

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Python has reached "a new all-time high" on TIOBE’s index of programming language popularity. TechRadar reports:
Java’s days as the world’s second most popular programming language could be numbered according to Tiobe’s latest programming language rankings which show Python is becoming increasingly popular among developers.
The firm’s Index for October 2020 shows that Java has been overtaken by C as the world’s most popular programming language when compared to the same period last year. Python remains in third place but it’s quickly closing the gap between it and Java.
According to Tiobe CEO Paul Jensen, C and Java have held the top two spots consistently for the past two decades. However, the 25-year-old programming language Java is approaching its "all time low" in popularity as it has fallen by 4.32 percentage points when compared to where it stood in October of last year. Tiobe ranks programming languages in its popularity index based on the number of hits each language gets across 25 search engines. RedMonk’s rankings already show Python as more popular than Java — the first time since 2012 that Java isn’t one of their top two most popular languages. And TIOBE’s CEO says "Let’s see what will happen the next few months."
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October 11, 2020 at 02:01PM

Hunting Season: Protect Your Guns and Know What to Do If They’re Stolen

Hunting Season: Protect Your Guns and Know What to Do If They’re Stolen

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This time of year is a favorite among many gun owners, getting away from the world, hanging out with some close friends, and going on a ritual hunting trip. Perhaps you prefer hiking, fishing, or some other getaway. Unfortunately, the best laid plans can become the worst trip imaginable when you find your truck or your car broken into, windows smashed, and your gun is missing. What should you do right now? Better yet, what could you have done to avoid this, if anything?

If this ever happens to you, you’ll need to protect yourself by talking to an attorney to have their advice on how to handle your police report. It’s hard to believe you were just the victim of a crime, but in many places you may feel like you are being treated as the criminal.

Know the Reporting Requirements for a Stolen Gun

Be aware that some states have mandatory reporting requirements if your gun is stolen. And even if a state doesn’t require it, you’ll want to have a paper trail establishing when the firearms left your possession so that you are not implicated in a future crime. Worse than having your gun stolen is to be falsely accused of a crime. If you fail to report your gun stolen and then find yourself confronted by law enforcement weeks, months, or even years later, you may learn that your stolen gun has been used in a crime such as a murder or a robbery.

Having your U.S. LawShield Independent Program Attorney at the ready becomes even more critical in these cases. Some jurisdictions will send an officer out to take a report, and some will take the report over the phone. But you’ll need to have some information ready in order to make that report, such as the make, model, and serial number of the stolen weapon or weapons.

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More importantly, you will want to have the advice of your U.S. LawShield Independent Program Attorney so that when you are talking with the police, you will understand all of the gun laws applicable to the situation and avoid any of the legal “gotcha’s” relating to your possession of the weapon, how it was stored, or even its accessibility to children or others.

After you make your report, police will enter the firearms and flag them as stolen in the National Crime Information Center (“NCIC”). This crucial step will have the biggest impact on being notified if your firearm winds up at a crime scene, or perhaps even at a pawn shop.

Check the State Laws and Check Your Vehicle Before Heading Out

Another consideration is when your getaway travel plans take you beyond the borders of your home state. You must check the laws of any states to where you travel when you’re traveling through them before you hit the road. This is especially true if you plan on hunting, because you’ll want to be aware of all the firearms and wildlife laws before you take aim at that 10-point buck.

And if you stop for a bite to eat or an overnighter on your journey, do not leave your firearms visible in your vehicle. The volume of vehicle break-ins seems to be increasing daily, and firearms are the top prize for a criminal. You also don’t want to accidentally bring a weapon that is legal in your home state, but illegal in the state, county, or city you are visiting. Many jurisdictions require firearms to remain concealed within a vehicle. The last thing you want is to leave for your getaway only to return home on probation.

If you have not already done so, make sure you take photos of your firearm serial numbers and back them up electronically. Of course, if you don’t want to send pictures of your guns to the cloud, keep a written log of the make, model, and serial numbers of your firearms, and keep the logs stored in a separate, secured location away from your gun collection.

It is important to know the laws of the state you find yourself in before traveling and preparing for your getaway hunting, hiking, or fishing trip. And I hope this year’s getaway is your best ever.

 

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October 11, 2020 at 02:05PM