Gun Policy News
Loss of Classic Winchester Rifle Factory is Loaded With Symbolism
20 January 2006
Washington Post
A famous ad that most boy baby boomers will recall from Boys' Life, the old scouting magazine of the '50s, showed a happy lad, carrot-topped and freckly like any number of Peck's Bad Boys, his teeth haphazardly arrayed within his wide, gleeful mouth under eyes wide as pie platters as he exclaimed on Christmas morn, "Gee, Dad … A Winchester!"
All gone, all gone, all gone. The gun as family totem, the implied trust between generations, the implicit idea that... (GunPolicy.org)