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ShotShow 2025
Gun Cleaners of Colorado will be attending ShotShow 2025 in Las Vegas from January 21-24. Use the ShotShow app to find us (Mike Axelrod, Bernie Axelrod) on the floor if you’d like to say “hey” or meet up at a particular booth.
Sorry, we can’t take all of you with us (it’s not open to the public). But, you can take a look at what ShotShow is like here.
Happy New Year 2025
Gun Cleaners of Colorado wishes all our customers and community a wonderful new year…2025! Thank you for your business and loyalty. We appreciate your reviews on Facebook, Google, Nextdoor, and Yelp! Your recommendations to friends and fellow firearm enthusiasts are always welcome. May your sight be straight, your aim true, your groupings tight, and, of course, your firearms clean!
A Christmas Song?
On Christmas Day in 1896, John Phillip Sousa, wrote “Stars & Stripes Forever” a popular patriotic march tune played to this day, most notably by the United States Marine Corps Band. (Watch and listen to the band play the march here!)
Add to your playlist of Christmas music this year?
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
Thankful and mindful
Thanksgiving is a national holiday that has a long and sometimes troubling history. Give thanks today for everyone that has been on this land before us, with us, and in the future. This Land is Their Land offers a more complete history of Thanksgiving.
Lincoln Creates Thanksgiving!
We have Abraham Lincoln to thank for Thanksgiving! On October 3, 1863, Lincoln issued a proclamation recognizing the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day.
Thanks, Abe!
Workingman’s Holiday-Labor Day
Did you know Colorado was among the first states to recognize Labor Day? In 1887, Colorado joined Oregon, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York states by passing a law creating a Labor Day holiday. The first Monday in September became a legal holiday seven years later when Congress passed an act recognizing the day and America’s workers. Learn more about the history of Labor Day!
The Purple Heart
George Washington created the Badge of Military Merit (the forerunner of the Purple Heart Award) on August 7, 1782, while he was a General in the Revolutionary War. He only awarded three of them.
We thank them and their families.
If you find a Purple Heart, here’s what you can do.
U.S. Coast Guard Day
August 4 is United States Coast Guard Day, which honors those who have or are serving in this branch of our military.
Even land-locked Colorado has a Coast Guard presence–CGRU USNORTHCOM–on Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Fun on the 4th of July
Gun Cleaners of Colorado loves having a booth at the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce 4th of July Street Fair every year. We meet new friends, thank our customers, and provide a wonderful photo op for families with Mike’s 1942 World War II Jeep! This year we held a drawing for a Ruger with a very patriotic finish.
WIN a RUGER on the 4th!
How’s THIS for fireworks? Stop by the Gun Cleaners of Colorado booth at the Monument 4th of July Street Fair and enter our drawing to WIN a LIMITED EDITION stars & stripes Ruger LCP CenterFire Pistol!
Entry into the drawing is free, BUT, there is some fine print: You MUST be 21 or older to enter and only ONE entry per person; the winner MUST pass a background check; there will be a 3-day waiting period once the background check is submitted; the winner MUST pick up in person at Gun Cleaners of Colorado in Palmer Lake. A winner will be drawn and contacted on Friday, July 5, 2024, and will have 24 hours to respond. If no response is received, another winner will be drawn.
