Cecil Brooks (93) gun maker whose rifles had been presented to keynote speakers at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting since 1955. Brooks was known for creating flintlock and percussion rifles. Actor Charlton Heston once told an NRA convention that the only way he would give up his Cecil Brooks Presentation Rifle was to have it pried.."from my cold, dead hands." Brooks died of heart failure in Marietta, Ohio on September 24, 2006.