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Authorities attempting to solve mystery of 132-year-old rifle found in Great Basin National Park
Park archaeologists from the Great Basin National Park in Nevada discovered an old and weathered rifle leaning against a tree in the park in November, and they are still working to determine the origins of the Winchester Model 1873 rifle.
The wood was cracked and the barrel rusted, but authorities were still able to pull a serial number from the firearm. The number matched up with shipping records, which date back to 1882, but the records don’t tell to whom or even where the rifle was shipped.
Park officials have now taken to the more painstaking process of searching newspaper archives and family histories in an attempt to locate any information about the 132-year-old rifle, and how it could possibly have ended up in the remote location.
Walmart refuses to print photo with shotgun, citing it promotes ‘gang culture’
When Stephanie Wehner went to pick up a set of photos of her and her fiancee, Walmart told her it was not their policy to release images that contained weapons.
The photo in question was one of a set of 13 of the happy couple posed together in preparation for their upcoming wedding. While the other 12 were released, the image of the two that included fiancee Mitch Strobl holding his Ruger Red Label shotgun was withheld.
Promotes Gang Culture?
“She was very nice, but very matter-of-fact, like she was not going to budge or give me my photo,” Wehner told WFAA-TV.
The reason for the refusal? The clerk advised that it was policy to not print pictures that included weapons due to the fact that it, “encouraged gang culture.”
This came as a shock to the couple, but especially to Strobl who posed with the action of the over and under shotgun open to show it was unloaded, and with the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. The avid shooter, in fact, helps produce online hunter’s education and safety videos.
For its part, Walmart, when contacted by local media, advised that the employee in question was misinformed and the chain had no such policy of refusing to print photos that included firearms. Further, while the broad terms of use posted by the retailer for its photo services reserves the right to not assist in the copying of a photograph for a number of reasons to include depictions of criminal activity or offensive language, firearms are not mentioned.