{"id":1227,"date":"2015-09-17T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/09\/17\/a-passing-is-noted\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:53","slug":"a-passing-is-noted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"A Passing Is Noted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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02:27:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-12 23:20:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 03:14:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 03:14:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07589579734134153159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank W. James,<\/a> retired farmer, <a href=\"http:\/\/frankwjamesgunwriter.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogger<\/a>, and gun writer extraordinare, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/jconline\/obituary.aspx?n=frank-w-james&amp;pid=175854620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed away on Tuesday<\/a> evening. He was 69.<\/p>\n<p>I only got the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/disturbance-in-force.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chance to meet Frank once<\/a>. It was at an impromptu meeting of gun bloggers before the 2012 NRA Annual Meeting in St. Louis arranged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ma-rooned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay G<\/a>. I thought here was this legend sitting down to have a drink with us mere mortals. I honestly don&#8217;t remember what, if anything, we said to one another.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let those who know him much better take it from here.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bane has a remembrance <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelbane.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/frank-james-rip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Frank served as one of his experts on Gun Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Tam, who knew him much better than me, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has this to say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, his earlier blog, <i>Corn, Beans, Spent Brass, An Empty Page &#8211; And &nbsp;A Deadline<\/i>, is gone and the Wayback Machine archive doesn&#8217;t have it. I guess memories will just have to do.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/guntalk.libsyn.com\/remembering-frank-w-james-writer-host-1946-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Gresham has posted an interview<\/a> he did with Frank from 2010 as a remembrance of Frank.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank W. James, retired farmer, blogger, and gun writer extraordinare, passed away on Tuesday evening. He was 69. 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