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Reality, What a Concept II

Wylie Gene Newton, 64, of Erie, Colo., stopped by a gun shop in nearby Wheat Ridge to sell two rare antique revolvers, one worth $20,000 and the other $500,000. The gun shop: Gunsmoke, site of a reality show on the Discovery Network. In the resulting episode, store owner and series star Rich Wyatt described the first as “a museum-quality Colt Dragoon,” but the second gun was proved to be a $350 replica; the first was real. Newton walked out of the shop with both guns when he was told about the fake. Still, Wyatt called it right: after seeing what Newton was offering, a volunteer from a museum in New Mexico tipped police that the Dragoon was stolen from the museum shortly before the episode was filmed. Newton, who had visited the museum several times before the gun disappeared, even signed the guest registry. He has been arrested. (RC/Denver Post, KRQE Albuquerque) ...Coming soon on Fox: Smith and Newton battle it out to see who gets paroled first.
Original Publication Date: 03 June 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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