[ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby outside portland, oregon. A family wrote that their strange inheritance would blow me away an extraordinary cache of historic firearms and civil war cannons thats lock, stock, and smoking barrels. My names brian marek. My father was a worldclass gunsmith who spent his life forging centuriesold military weapons. Its all shaped by hand. Into an arsenal coveted by collectors. My brothers and i found our inheritance highly explosive, in more ways than one. Hey, guys, im jamie. I meet brian, along with his brother tim. Tim, how are you . Nice to meet you. Lets go. The brothers walk me right over and give me a small taste of their strange inheritance, these civil war cannons. These are beauties. This particular one is a 7 8th scale of a 6pounder. This ones a fullsize scale of a 3inch ordnance rifle. Theyre fun to shoot, and theyre handmade by our dad. The brothers tell me these are just two of the hundreds of his