{"id":11672,"date":"2011-09-28T01:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2013-08-08T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:26:09","slug":"drtv-weekly-the-evolution-of-the-us-army-handgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/drtv-weekly-the-evolution-of-the-us-army-handgun\/11672\/","title":{"rendered":"DRTV Weekly: The Evolution of the US Army Handgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11678\" title=\"drtvweekly092811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/drtvweekly092811-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/drtvweekly092811-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/drtvweekly092811.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We&#8217;re going back to Gunsite and their celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Model 1911. Sheriff Jim Wilson talks with Jim Supica, director of the NRA Firearms Museum, about the evolution of the US Army handgun from the percussion era to the year 1911.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/6eFMJC\/RqqFgTxaLX4a\/embed\/select\/KJ6NYsdJKpCn&amp;autoPlay=true\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nramuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The NRA Firearms Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sheriffjimwilson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sheriff Jim Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunsite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gunsite Academy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going back to Gunsite and their celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Model 1911. Sheriff Jim Wilson talks with Jim Supica, director of the NRA Firearms Museum, about the evolution of the US Army handgun from the percussion era to the year 1911. Reference Links: The NRA Firearms Museum Sheriff Jim Wilson Gunsite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":11678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,1612],"tags":[1605,2111,3617,118,1914,2112,2113],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-gun-stories","tag-colt-model-1911","tag-gun-history","tag-gun-stories","tag-gunsite","tag-jim-supica","tag-nra-national-firearms-museum","tag-sheriff-jim-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}