Really true, it is a great museum. Very fine layout, and lots of interesting and rare guns. I remember years ago standing at every revolver display trying to guesstimate the b/c gap of each wheelgun with my then-about 12 year-old son. We were standing there conglomerating about whether the old-timers had to put up with lead spitting like we do and then I got self-conscious about being a real weirdo, a real gun crank with the powder sickness running thru my veins. But looking around, there were a number of other little groups noting this or that esoteric fine point about this shootin' iron or that one and a few guys wearing their wives out with descriptions of functionality and bore-and-groove dimensions.

And then I felt like I was at home, albeit "Home" being the Gun-Nut-House!

There are other very fine arms museums,too.

The all-time best I've ever been to is the Tøjhusmuseet in Copenhagen, Denmark. Absolutely amazing. I am not sure but I believe it to be the largest publicly displayed small arms museum in the world. Worth going to Copenhagen just to see.

As for TR...he is easy to love as a hunter, game conservationist and patriot, but I must confess, I hate his foreign policy politics and his participation and leadership in taking the USA once-and-for all out of the realm of a Jeffersonian Republic and onto the world stage as a super power.

He is the Patron Saint of the Mediocre Game Shot. Honest enough to admit he didn't make one-shot-kills every time...or every other time...or even frequently...