"FROM MY COLD DEAD HAND"
NRA president Charlton Heston holds up a musket as he tells the 5000 plus members attending the 2000 NRA Annual Meeting. They can have his gun when they pry it 'from my cold dead hands. ' Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing 'Ben-Hur' and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, died Saturday April 5, 2008 according to a statement from the actor's family. He was 84. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, FILE)
HE WILL BE MISSED but his spirit lives on with all who knew and appreciated his stand on OUR right to keep and bear arms.