The idea that the PGCA is the final authority and steward of Parker records leaves a lot to be desired. It's a good start, but certainly if there is more to be had than no one collector, or group of collectors, should have more access to it than others. In fact, I would question the integrity of anyone claiming to care about the Parker gun if they are sitting on information.
GregSY; What do you not get about the fact that the original Parker records reside with the Remington Arms Company that owns them in Ilion NY. The PGCA is the ONLY and FINAL authority because it has Stock Book photocopies procured by Roy Gunther, Charlie Price, Louis Parker, Bill Mullins for the
Parker Story in 1992; also in June 1998, Ron Kirby arranged for a research mission to Ilion by himself, Kevin McCormack, Bill Murphy, Jim Hall, Mark Conrad, Allan Swanson, Dave Rozier, Pall Burns, and Frank Sweeney. These guys came from all over the country and as far away as Texas, and devoted a full week at their own expense to get 32,000 pages of Order Books and 5,000 IBM cards, and that was just the start...next came transferring the millions of bits of data to a computer in such a way that it could be cross-referenced and retreived...
GregSY: Why don't you explain why:
The stewardship by the PGCA of its own photocopied factory records, so as to produce Research Letters, not otherwise obtainable, "...leaves a lot to be desired."
And pray tell us why you "find distasteful" that someone who procured the photocopies for the PGCA had "greater access" and knows something about the information he copied.
And do you really "question the integrity" of the above named doctor, lawyers, businessmen, teacher, government officials, and other individuals? Well, yea, you are Mr. Question Man, never an answer, always the jab, just questioning everything because you don't have a clue.
