"One of the more significant purchases for Burgess folding shotguns was secured with the aid of just such a holster. Burgess salesman Charlie Dammon – an impressive exhibition shooter in the day – made an appointment with the New York City Police Board President. Who might this person be in 1895? None other than Theodore Roosevelt, future United States President and all-around badass. After exchanging a few greetings, Dammon thoroughly startled Roosevelt by whipping out the gun, snapping it shut, and blasting a full magazine of blanks into the ceiling of the office. Roosevelt, always one to be enthusiastic about weapons technology, promptly ordered one hundred of the guns for use in the New York State Penal System (these were eventually sold at auction in Canada around 1920). "