RESEARCH NEWS CURRENT DATABASE The database includes firearms sold by VL&D between 1901 and 1929, as well as the those sold by A&F between 1929 and 1977 when A&F finally closed. Currently indexing G&H record books, 1977 to 1981. COLLECTORS If a factory letter says your Winchester, Remington, Marlin, Colt or Smith & Wesson was shipped to VL&D or A&F, and you know the year, please email a request for a lookup. USED GUN SALES I have considered for a while now whether to include second hand and consigned guns sold by VL&D and A&F in the research listings. The disadvantage is that a Used Gun listing doesn’t suggest a manufacture date or the name of the original purchaser or the original physical specifications. But on the other hand, firearms that are so listed often have the name of both the buyer and the seller a well as the physical dimensions at the time of resale.