- Bruce Stern
Stern graduated from the
Wharton School at theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1964 and earned his J.D. atNYU , and his Masters degree at theUniversity of Bridgeport. [ [http://www.nrawinningteam.com/bios00/stern.html Bruce E. Stern ] ] ACaptain in theU.S. Army , Mr. Stern was a Vietnam veteran, serving atLong Binh , and was a member ofAmerican Legion Post 141. [http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/07/nra_director_br_1.php] In addition to his legal career, Stern was the founder and president of the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen, and a contributing writer to its magazine, "Hook 'N' Bullet". He died on July 18th, 2007. Stern was perhaps best known for having a very large gun collection, which grossed a record-breaking $12.7 million at auction after his death. [ [http://www.t-six.com/showthread.php?p=212429 Arms collection of Bruce Stern's ] ] . This auction also included items from other esteemed collectors [ [http://juliaauctions.net/firearms.asp Firearms Division ] ]The Stern Collection
Bruce Stern's massive collection of firearms is well known to the online gun community. Photographs of his collection have been widely mislabeled as belonging to
Charlton Heston . [ [http://pd-evolution.blogspot.com/2008/05/late-charleton-hestons-basement.html Change Keep A-Comin': Bruce Stern's Collection - largest grossing firearms auction EVER held in the world ] ] This mis-attribution has been debunked onSnopes [ [http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/gunvault.asp snopes.com: Charlton Heston's Gun Collection ] ] which also displays the photographs of his gun vault. An interview with a family member stated that even the re-attribution of the Heston Collection to Mr. Stern is incorrect. The collection includes a wide variety of military rifles, including a number of rare military semi-automatics (thePedersen rifle and MexicanMondragón ) and many early sniper rifles such as theMauser M88. [ [http://juliaauctions.net/auctions/233/selected_highlights.asp Firearms - March 2008: Selected Highlights ] ] In addition, he also owned a large number of antique machine guns, such as theMG42 , theVickers machine gun , and the M1981Browning Automatic Rifle .References
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