Larry Ness, a collector from Yankton, South Dakota, spent five decades assembling a carefully curated collection that tracks the development of firearms from the earliest days of western expansion by ...

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Terry Tyler didn't plan to amass the greatest collection of historical Vermont firearms — at least not at first. A series of decisions over the years, however, turned a hobbyist's collection into a ...