The Rolling Stones -- Nugent isn't the only gun-toting rocker!

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Keith Richards, gunslinger

A story about the Stones, probably in their early days before they could afford 24 hour armed protection.

It’s hard to imagine Keith Richards giving anyone flack over drug use, but he gave the “clean coach” treatment to fellow Rolling Stone Ron Wood back in the day. Well, sort of. In his upcoming autobiography, “Ronnie,” Ron describes his inconvenient cocaine addiction and Keith’s very special display of “tough love.”

“Everybody was angry with me around this time, and after a row with Keith one day, he stormed off to get his gun," the 60-year-old guitarist writes in an excerpt published in the New York Daily News. “He returned with his derringer, pointed it at me and yelled ‘You f---ing b-----d!' I calmly pulled out my .44 Magnum. And that was the last time Keith drew his gun on me ... until the next time.”

Not a good story to promote responsible gun ownership, but an interesting historical tidbit.