In April, the USPS will release a stamp honoring former NRA president Charlton Heston. I initially found the news at Daily Caller, but they simply said the stamp would be released sometime in the year 2014. A look at the USPS website says that the release event is scheduled for a day to be determined in April.
If USPS is really interested in making some money, they would do it before the NRA meetings start on April 25 so that it’s a nifty little fact that stands a chance of getting mentioned to 70,000+ people who are more likely to have an interest in this particular actor.
Since it will be a standard First Class Forever stamp, it’s entirely possible that any mail sent in the next few years from our house may honor Mr. Heston. Think they’ll do a custom one of Charlton Heston in a Santa hat or holding some mistletoe for my Christmas cards? (h/t NYSRPA)
I’d like to see one of him holding a musket, with the slogan “From my cold dead fingers.” However, I think that this is about as likely as oxygen atoms spontaneously transmutating into gold.
IMHO, 15 April 2014 would be an appropriate day for the USPS to issue this particular stamp….
I have to agree that I will be buying a bulk load and trying to make sure every NRA check I write and every NRA returned address envelope I use is adorned with his face!! Keep a special batch for my my NRA Christmas cards. Might need your home address Bitter, or PO box #.
The only stamp to buy.
Love Heston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQtU-PPxZMY
Utterly watchable, over and over again. Heston was the best.
While I think this is pretty cool, there are many who remember him not wanting regular people owning hand guns. He was a good face for the Corp, but was he really all about guns?
I think it was the Carson show.
I tried looking for any reference to your comment. I would think, as big and ugly as he was portrayed as head of the NRA, that a quote by the left leaning press would immediately be found. I found nothing. Or maybe it’s a urban myth.
I openly admit, I didn’t spend much time, and I only Googled it.
I can’t give you a reference at the moment, but I’m pretty sure that happened back in the days when he was a Democrat.
What was more important to me was when he said in an interview that “AK-47s are not appropriate for private ownership” — as a top spokesman for the RKBA.
If find it interesting that it appears no one here has chosen to remember that.