{"id":35739,"date":"2025-09-26T22:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35739"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:46:36","slug":"the-skelton-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35739","title":{"rendered":"The Skelton Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:265,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.rockislandauction.com\\\/catalog\\\/1049?keywords=skelton&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:266,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Skeeter_Skelton&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:267,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/americanhandgunner.com\\\/discover\\\/farewell-amigo&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Rock Island Auction&#8217;s October auction will feature a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockislandauction.com\/catalog\/1049?keywords=skelton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collection of firearms<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skeeter_Skelton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skeeter <\/a><\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/discover\/farewell-amigo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bart Skelton<\/a><\/strong>. Both were well known lawmen and gun writers. In addition, Bart had been a long time member of the NRA Board of Directors until he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31635\">ran afoul of the then powers that be<\/a><\/strong>. He did that by joining Judge Phil Journey in the call for an examiner in the NRA&#8217;s abortive bankruptcy case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As seen in the video below, there are some interesting firearms up for auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9kWJ7uD5Zo?si=I15M1OdmX_43DARZ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Island Auction&#8217;s October auction will feature a collection of firearms from Skeeter and Bart Skelton. Both were well&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":73,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7231,6562,7232],"class_list":["post-35739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bart-skelton","tag-rock-island-auctions","tag-skeeter-skelton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35740,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions\/35740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}