Carl, (owner of 4oldguns shown below) was 8 years old when he first started trading guns. 
He walked across town and sold one of his friends a shotgun and ended up losing $12.50.
In 1940, when he was 10 he started hunting coyotes for the government and was paid $5.00 per pair of coyote ears. He continued to trade guns throughout high school.

After High school he joined the Navy and was sent to submarine school in New London, 
Connecticut. During the Korean war he was a gunner on a troup transport hauling marines 
to the Korean battlefield. Later, during the war he was sent to be on the Navy's boxing team 
and had the privilege to box world champion, Johnny Franklin in 1953. 

After his discharge from the Navy, he got back into the gun business. Today, he has been in 
the gun business for nearly 50 years and deals with clients around the world selling the world's 
rarest guns. 

 
 
 
                                                           
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