{"id":17430,"date":"2021-01-05T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/true-crime-collector-skulduggery-r-l-wilson-and-the-trade-of-the-century\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:00:03","slug":"true-crime-collector-skulduggery-r-l-wilson-and-the-trade-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/true-crime-collector-skulduggery-r-l-wilson-and-the-trade-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"True Crime Collector Skulduggery: R.L. Wilson and the &#8220;Trade of the Century&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2nhUpPbqD44?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>R.L. Wilson was a pillar of the firearms collecting community, and especially the Colt collecting community, in the 1970s and 80s. He wrote a slew of books on Colt, and was a major broker, dealer, and appraiser. He also betrayed the trust people put in him, as best exemplified by the &#8220;trade of the century&#8221;, in which he swindled 290 firearms out of the Connecticut State Library museum in exchange for 8 guns and a cane (including two stolen guns and two later generally accepted to be fakes). Today we will talk about that story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to hear more about Wilson&#8217;s work, I would encourage you to subscribe to support C&#038;Rsenal on Patreon, and check out the two-hour podcast Othais and Cody Museum Associate Curator Danny Michael did on the topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/unloaded-30-45416855?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/unloaded-30-45416855?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also download a huge PDF or Connecticut State Police files on the investigation to read yourself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/true-crime-collector-skullduggery-r-l-wilson-and-the-trade-of-the-century\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/true-crime-collector-skullduggery-r-l-wilson-and-the-trade-of-the-century\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons R.L. Wilson was a pillar of the firearms collecting community, and especially the Colt collecting community, in the 1970s and 80s. He wrote a slew of books on Colt, and was a major broker, dealer, and appraiser. He also betrayed the trust people put in him, as best&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/true-crime-collector-skulduggery-r-l-wilson-and-the-trade-of-the-century\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">True Crime Collector Skulduggery: R.L. Wilson and the &#8220;Trade of the Century&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}