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Sanders and Metzger collections show weapon evolution
By James Bemsen
The Battalion
Texas A&M University prides itself on it’s traditions. One litde-
known tradition has been almost 700 years in the making.
A&M is home to the Sam Houston Sanders and Carl Met
zger Gun Collections, which trace the history of firearms
from the 1 300s.
Joe Fenton, Class of '58 and curator of the collection, which is
housed in the Sam Houston Sanders Corps of Cadets Center, said
the collection is considered one of the top three in the country.
The central part of the collection is the Colt revolving rifle
collection, which features several rifles with a serial number of
one, he said.
The Sanders collection consists of 102 commemorative guns
that mark anniversaries of famous events in the history of America.
The Metzger Collection consists of 340 antique and rare
firearms and 120 powder flasks.
“It is one of the most complete, workable collections,” Fen
ton said. “Every one (of the guns) can be shot.”
The antiques are arranged into categories such as pre-Revolu-
tionary War, post-Revolutionary War, percussion guns and pistols,
frontier period, guns of the West, war guns and specialty guns.
Fenton said he often uses the guns to illustrate history to the
children who visit, so they can visualize what life was like in the
Old West.
“We come in here and tell them two things,” he said.
“Guns tell the story of America. They would never have been
able to feed themselves or survive on the frontier without
them.”
He said he also uses the opportunity to teach children gun
safety.
“We tell them to never assume a gun is unloaded,” he said.
“When we moved them from the MSC, after all those years, we
found one of them was loaded.”
The collection was moved into the Corps Center in 1992 to
make it more accessible, he said. Many firearms are not exhib
ited, as space is limited.
The placement of the individual guns in the exhibit was de
termined by a computer, and was designed to facilitate explana
tion and understanding.
Among the items in the exhibit is a Colt Walker, considered
the most valuable of the collection.
There are less than 100 of these famous revolvers that were
produced specially for the Texas Rangers.
The University also owns two shotguns that belonged to
Bonnie and Clyde.
The guns were recovered after the final shoot-out with law
enforcement officers in which the infamous bank robbers were
killed.
The Bonnie and Clyde guns are currently on loan to the
Texas Ranger Museum in Waco.
The collection also features a rare Henry Derringer, the same
model weapon that was used to assassinate President Abraham Lin
coln. A Nelson volley gun of the same type as the one Jim Bowie
took to the Alamo is also part of the collection.
There are also several guns that are the only ones of their
kind remaining, including a Colt sniper rifle, one of which was
used to kill Lord Horatio Nelson.
The oldest weapon in the collection is a 14th Century Chi
nese hand cannon.
In addition to the two collections, A&M. owns two water-
cooled machine guns that were used on aircraft in World War I
and training rifles that have been used at A&M throughout its
history.
Fenton said with all the controversial arguments about guns
today, it is still important to remember that guns are, in a way,
the history of the United States.
“They were tools in the frontier era,” he said. “You had to
have that old muzzle-loader leaning on a stump nearby if some
thing came up.”
He credited the repeating rifle as winning the American
West, which, whether good or bad, is a very important part of
history, he said.
By David liirch/The Battalion
A late eighteenth century, English multi-shot and Metzger gun collection on display in the
pistol is one of over 500 guns in the Sanders Corps of Cadets Center.
Suspected thief
arrested for
using I.D.’s to
hide crimes
The Associated Press
LONG BEACH, Calif. — The man al
legedly threatened several off-duty po
lice officers with a gun. But when po
lice arrested him several days later, they
got more than they bargained for.
Twelve driver’s licenses and some
matching Social Security cards. A
leather suitcase with $44,617 in cash,
$12,000 in traveler’s checks, three
Rolex watches and other jewelry.
A computer check on the man re
vealed three fugitive warrants, includ
ing one from Texas for attempted
murder.
"I told myself, ‘I’m in over my
head,”' said arresting Officer John
Bruce. He turned to Detective Joe Ba-
hash of the career criminal apprehen
sion team, who settled on one ID for
the man: Kourosh Mojallali, born Jan.
6, 1965.
A search of the man’s apartment
after his arrest March 4 turned up pa
pers for an airline ticket to Iran the
next day. They also found a chrome
.44-caliber Magnum handgun, loaded
with hollow-point bullets, plus three
more Rolexes.
Other property was packed for
shipping to Iran, including $20,000
worth of new clothing.
“Every hour I’m finding some
thing new,” Bahash said. “I’ve never
come across anyone who has so many
different accounts with different
names.”
Bahash said he’d found evidence of
$200,000 in credit and insurance
fraud associated with the man. Re
ports of bad credit card debts in
Hawaii go back three years.
Other allegations turned up by Ba
hash:
—The traveller’s checks in the suit
case were reported stolen in an effort
to get the money back.
—The man told credit card com
panies his card was stolen and charges
weren’t his. “He has a motorcycle,
which he said he didn’t buy,” Bahash
said.
—Fie bought a new Toyota Camry
on credit under an assumed name.
“In looking through his papers, it
seems like every flight he takes, he
files claims for stolen luggage,” the
detective said.
In a recent transaction, the man
wrote checks to himself on a Hawaii
account he had closed last year and
deposited them in a Long Beach ac
count, Bahash said.
The Long Beach bank credited the
checks to his account without waiting
for them to clear, and the man with
drew $20,000 from it the next day,
the detective said.
The case folder is 5 inches thick
and growing, Bahash said.
Mojallali was being held without
bail in county jail on the Texas war
rant, issued in Dallas in 1988. Bahash
said he was still preparing a fraud case
against him.
Mojallali was arrested four days af
ter an encounter with three off-duty
police officers and a probation officer
at a bank teller machine. The man
asked the group for a pen, but they
didn’t have one, and one of the offi
cers told the man it wasn’t a good
idea to leave his car running.
The man yelled obscenities at the
officer and, minutes later, drove up to
the group, got out, pointed a gun and
said, “I could kill you all.”
He then drove away, police said.
He was arrested after police spot
ted the man’s car at another bank,
tailed him and pulled him over for
speeding.
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