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Colt commander in .45 ACP by Mario Francis Ruffino, a paisan from Brooklyn NY–born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression. He and his family moved to NJ, where he lived until 1961. It was in Jersey that he became a machinist and toolmaker, eventually putting those skills to good use as a gunsmith. In 1964 he moved to Milford Maine and became an agricultural engineer at the University of Maine. His second passion was volunteer fire fighting and law enforcement. During most of his time in Maine, he was a reserve Deputy Sheriff and a reserve State trooper. He always nurtured his passion for gunsmithing, maintaining a shop wherever he lived–mostly after hours and weekends. After meeting his wife (Raffelina Finnegan) they moved from Maine to Hampton, Virginia. He opened a gun shop there on Mercury Blvd, which he ran for 15 years before retirement. Ebony grips by Kim Ahrends.