[Lurker]

Sometime in the last few years a gentleman in Joliet IL was doing some home remodeling and tore into an old plaster wall. There behind it was a brand spanking new 1919 A1 Thompson.

The guy called the cops to have them come pick it up....

[Bender2]

You run into a fascinating group of folks dealing in military collectibles and weapons, especially Class 3 fully automatic ones. Most are pretty good Joes & Janes but occasionally you come upon one or two that makes you wonder how in nObama’s name they got through the background check.

One claimed he was making up new Stens from parts and new receivers he made himself, but the ATF found it funny the newly manufactured receivers, he claimed to have made from scratch, had the British proof marks & serial numbers under the parkarizing. I believe he is still serving time for selling as new those off paper Stens. He got 25 to life in 1974 but knowing Ross even as liitle as I did, he would never be able to keep his nose clean for long.

The first time I saw him at a Houston Gun Show in 1971 or 2, if I recall correctly, he was wearing ragged Levis tucked into mirror bright shinned Aggies Senior knee-high riding boots (Yet he never went to A&M nor rode a horse), a yellow Ban-lon golf shirt under a Waffen SS Standartenführer tunic and a coonskin Davy Crockett hat cocked sideways where the tail hung down the right side of his heavily bearded face.

Hey, my old Pappy always said clothes make the man... And those sure did mark Ross as someone you'd never forget!