I have known Peter Johnson for going on fifty years now. In the early days, I would talk to him on a monthly basis at local gun shows. I was a Parker student before he published his book. Our knowledge of Parkers "Before Johnson" was obtained from old time collectors and dealers who were more than willing to share information they obtained by buying, selling, and shooting the guns that they had owned since they could buy them new at local gun stores. Johnson added to this information by writing of the history of the company and its founders, information the old timers could not provide us with. There is a wealth of information in the Johnson book that new Parker students need for a basis of knowledge. The book is cheap, real cheap, and may be the book you should devour first. When we first saw the book, we knew that Peter Johnson was not going to be the "know all, teach all" about the guns themselves and collecting them, but his perseverence in studying everything but the collecting was invaluable to us as collectors and students. If it weren't for Peter Johnson, all we would know about is the guns. How boring would that be?
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