antique & collectible firearms
antique & collectible firearms
The best way to reach me is by cellphone, 804.436.4166. If I am unavailable when you call, please leave a message with your name, number, a good time to call, and the item you are calling about.
If you email me and don't get a response, please call. AOL users in particular sometimes have trouble getting through for some unknown reason. Here's the address: jfrancisarms@msn.com
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and w.ater because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes....Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
-- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, "Jefferson's Commonplace Book", written 1774-1776, quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in 'On Crimes and Punishment', 1764.