“Guns For Great Causes” Benefit by Henry Repeating Arms, Serial No. ETHANSARMY01 on GunBroker.com

Henry Repeating Arms is proud to offer this limited-edition “Ethan’s Army” rifle as part of a Guns For Great Causes benefit. All proceeds from the auction of this rifle will be presented to the Shaw family of Pleasant View, TN.

Henry’s “Guns for Great Causes” is a charitable component of the company that focuses on individual sick children’s cases, children’s hospitals, veterans organizations, and 2nd Amendment/Shooting Sports/Wildlife conservation causes and organizations.

This Guns For Great Causes auction item is serial number ETHANSARMY01, the first rifle in a series of 88 Henry Golden Boy “Ethan’s Army” Editions to benefit the family of Ethan Shaw, who tragically lost his battle with ETMR, one of the most aggressive forms of brain tumors encountered in children. Henry President and Owner Anthony Imperato first learned of Ethan’s diagnosis in April and immediately committed to manufacture and donate the rifles to help with medical expenses. As the rifles were nearing completion, Imperato received the worst possible news that Ethan had succumbed to his illness.

 Ethan was the youngest child in a family of 9 children and passed with a veritable army of love and support behind him. As part of “Guns For Great Causes,” Henry Repeating Arms offers these limited edition rifles in honor of Ethan’s life and to show Ethan and his family that he had a great many more in the Henry family standing right beside him through his struggle.

The “Ethan’s Army” edition rifle, chambered in .22 S/L/LR, is built on the world-famous Henry Golden Boy platform with a gleaming Brasslite receiver cover, barrel band, and brass buttplate. The genuine American Walnut buttstock is engraved with a silhouette of Ethan in the foreground with his entire family standing behind him in a show of support. Ethan’s profile is hand-painted with a Tennessee flag motif, his home state. Baron Engraving of Trumbull, CT, donated all of the engraving and design work for the “Ethan’s Army” rifle.

Ethan’s final treatments cost the Shaw family upwards of $17,000 a month for medicine, which was not covered by their insurance company’s plan. From the sale of these rifles, Henry Repeating Arms will be able to present the family with over $50,000.

This new-in-box rifle is being sold “as is,” and the purchaser assumes all liability of ownership. On behalf of Henry President Anthony Imperato, everyone at Henry Repeating Arms, and Ethan’s family and friends we sincerely appreciate you choosing to support Guns For Great Causes.

Imperato first learned of Ethan’s battle with Embryonal tumors with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) in May of this year and immediately offered assistance through Henry’s ‘Guns For Great Causes’ program, a division of Henry Repeating Arms focused on charitable donations for sick children and hospitals, veterans organizations, and shooting sports and wildlife conservation. ETMR is considered one of the most aggressive forms of brain tumors encountered in children, and the family was incurring medical expenses outside of their insurance coverage in excess of $17,000 a month for the medications alone. From the sales of the “Ethan’s Army” rifles, Henry Repeating Arms expects to present the family with over $50,000.

With the production of the rifles well underway, on June 11, 2020, Imperato received the devastating news that Ethan Shaw had succumbed to his illness. Imperato says, “My heart is broken for Ethan’s parents and his eight older siblings. We set out to make these rifles to show Ethan that the Henry Family is standing with him in his battle, and now we must release these rifles in honor of his life.” He continues, “The last thing parents want to think about after losing their child to an illness like this are finances, so we hope that this Guns For Great Causes initiative helps ease that burden.”

The “Ethan’s Army” edition rifle, chambered in .22 S/L/LR, is built with a Brasslite receiver cover, barrel band, and brass buttplate. It also features a 20-inch blued steel octagon barrel with fully adjustable sights. The genuine American Walnut buttstock is engraved with a silhouette of Ethan in the foreground with his entire family standing behind him. Ethan’s profile is hand-painted with a Tennessee flag motif. Baron Engraving of Trumbull, CT, donated the engraving and design work for these rifles.

About Henry Repeating Arms:
Henry Repeating Arms is one of the leading rifle and shotgun manufacturers in the United States and a world leader in the lever action category. The company motto is “Made in America, or not made at all” and its firearms come with a lifetime guarantee backed by award-winning customer service. The company is also known for its charitable endeavors under its Guns For Great Causes program, which focuses on sick children, both individual cases and children’s hospitals, veteran and wounded veteran organizations, Second Amendment and wildlife conservation organizations. The company currently employs 535 people and has 250,000 square-feet of manufacturing space in its Rice Lake, Wisconsin and Bayonne, New Jersey facilities. The company is named in honor of Benjamin Tyler Henry who invented and patented the Henry rifle in 1860 – the first repeating rifle, the lever action rifle, which is America’s unique contribution to international firearms design and is one of the most legendary, respected and sought after rifles in the history of firearms. Visit Henry Repeating Arms online at www.HenryUSA.com, on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/HenryRepeating, and on Instagram @Henry_Rifles.