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RIP Bob Corbin

Obituary here. Bob died at age 96. He was Maricopa County Attorney when I was in grade school, and Attorney General of Arizona when I was barely out of law school. He served as a very forward-thinking NRA president in 1992-93. He established two committees of board and non-board members, the Committee on the Year 2000, to try to do long-range planning, and a committee to try to plan for a Second Amendment Supreme Court case. Both came up with plans, but the board as a whole did little, if anything.

(One part of the plan for 2000 was to put Ackerman-McQueen's PR contract up for bidding, to see if other firms would give us more for less; that went over like a lead balloon).

Bob told me that he was fairly sure he'd pinned down the location of the Lost Dutchman Mine, but someone had been blasting and triggered a landslide that buried it. He also had his eyes on a report that there was a cave in Mexico that had a large supply of Remington rolling block rifles in it, which he thought would be an even greater prize than the Dutchman.