All organizations that grow to a certain size become political and the ASSRA & AGCC are no different, I like the members but have a hard time with the politics. If you have been with the ASSRA long enough you will remember that I wrote several articles for them. I have always admired the work of Rudi Prusok and will do what I can to help preserve his work. I remember around the early 1970's when I started getting serious about research I wrote several letters to the NRA, they either did not have the information or were too busy to respond. It's funny because the person who was running the NRA downtown museum at the time did not have a complete set of American Rifleman magazines and would call me and ask questions. Once I found Rudi he went out of his way to help and supply any answers he could. I also depended heavily on fellow researcher Jim Foral to share information with. He is lurker here but seldom post.
I often wondered what happened to the papers of folks such as Braverman(sp?) Sellers and others who did research. Townsend Whelen's grandson is working on a bibliography of TW's writings, a major project.
