Little John's

So, I’m a little bit afraid of guns.

It’s because of movies. When do you ever see a gun in a movie that doesn’t eventually shoot someone? Right? Therefore: Gun = get tense, someone be getting shot, Yo (as the character with the gun might say).

Yeah, this thing shot some Nazis.

BUT my dad found one of my grandpa’s WW2 guns. Wow. So we went to a gun store (obviously) to try and sell it. And, in true gun store style, the owner explained, “What you got there is an antique. You need to go see Little John.” Like we were suddenly transported into a video game. “Little John can tell you all about any gun – practically tell you the color of the shirt of the guy who last used it. Hehe…”

“Oh… okay. How do we find this… Little John.”

“He’ll find you.” No, I’m kidding. He gave us directions.

And the pliers are for, what? Retrieving bullets?

Walking into Little John’s Antique Arms is just like being a kid in a Nintendo store IF you’re a 19^th century pirate.

Seriously, if you’re a Civil War reenactor, a renaissance faire attender, a cowboy, or just a seriously creepy dude – go see Little John.

Little John stands 8 feet high, speaks with a lisp and is missing an arm. Sort of. In reality he IS very tall (taller than me, at least) and had his arm in a sling. The man is quite learned about antique guns. But to an outsider who didn't know there was SO much to know about weapons – watching Little John with this gun was like watching a psychic touch an article of clothing belonging to a missing child and then spew out a description of where he is. Magic.

They have auctions about every three months. I bet those are fun. My grandpa’s gun will be in the August auction.

C’mon… BIG MONEY!