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Please see the CALENDAR for an important announcement regarding the Spring 2011 Annual Membership Meeting and Show |
Welcome...
...to the Home Page of the Texas
Gun Collectors Association (TGCA)
one of the oldest gun collecting clubs in
the country whose members' interests
mostly revolve around antique and historic
firearms from a bygone era and also
collectible classic firearms from more
modern times.
The spirit of Texas may
be seen in the bronze sculpture, "Stampede"
by Covelle, Texas, pictured here,
and one may feel the raw emotions of the
cowboys experiencing the potentially disastrous stampedes occurring on those
cattle drives of a hundred years and more ago from Texas to Kansas. And
from which one may sense the freedom of the wide open Wild West of an age of
legend now swiftly passing into America's history and mythology.
The guns and other tools of the cowboy's trade form the basis of many a TGCA member's collection, as do the weapons and memorabilia of the American Civil War, and other major events in American, and even world, history. Other members may base their collections on the guns of a particular gun maker - Colt, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, or one of myriad other makers. Others will collect variations of just one type of gun such as Colt single actions, derringers or Winchester .22 rifles. The list is endless.
We extend a
warm Texas welcome to the visitor - member or
casual visitor - and the visitor is cordially
invited to explore this website to learn more
about TGCA and what it has to offer. Within
these pages you will find a few articles from
past editions of
The Texas Gun Collector (see
the Magazine page),
the fabulous
Parade of Walkers 2003
and 2008's exhibit
A Gathering of Patersons.
Interested non-members are invited to apply for
membership, and an application form can be copied
from within these pages. For those wishing
to reserve a trade table or a table on which one
may display something from his or her collection,
a table reservation form for our next meeting and
show will be available for downloading from this
site at a date closer to the next show.
Bits and pieces will be added and/or changed from
time to time.
Y'all come back - hear?
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A few pictures from our Spring 2010 Meeting in Canyon, Texas |
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| More pictures from the Canyon Meeting |