Darn, Jerry,
If I'd known you 40 years ago I could have put you onto a deal of a life time. My best friend has been in the unclaimed freight business most of his life and got a call to clean out the Heritage Arms manufacturing facility somewhere in the Denton Dr/Harry Hines area of Dallas. I went with him to help and since time was running out we only loaded what his small fork lift could handle. Left all the mills, lathes, and specialty machines to be hauled off by scrap dealers. I don't know the correct terminology but there were machines to bore gun barrels, ones to push (or draw) the rifling buttons through the barrels, stamping machines, you name it. We loaded pallet boxes of cylinders, hammers, barrels, frames, etc., which he then sold to various people as these didn't require any kind of licenses. I know nothing about the quality of Heritage Arms guns but it was a shame about the machines.
