Silver Rush

The Silver Rush the largest retailer of energy weapons in the Mojave Wasteland, located in Freeside across from the Atomic Wrangler Casino.

Background
Before belonging to the Van Graff family, the Silver Rush was the casino which rivaled the Atomic Wrangler in Freeside. For unknown reasons, the Silver Rush attracted the ire of the Van Graffs who killed its former occupants and then set up shop. When the Kings showed up to protest, the Van Graffs reduced several of their members to goo and the two have left each other ever since. Once opened, the Silver Rush headed by Frieda Van Graff for awhile, but Frieda soon left the Silver Rush to pursue personal interests. After Frieda's departure, Gloria Van Graff and Jean-Baptiste Cutting were assigned to heading the Silver Rush. Now that the Silver Rush is no longer a casino, and instead an energy weapons market, its proximity to the Atomic Wrangler attracts customers.

As one would expect, the Silver Rush is not lacking in security; those caught attempting to steal are used as a cheaper alternative to target dummies. Energy weapons are not the first thing in mind when thinking about Freeside, so one might think business would suffer; however, Gloria Van Graff boasts that because the Van Graffs do not sell cheap merchandise, their customers do not care where they have to go to purchase from them.

Layout
This building serves as the headquarters of the Van Graff family's operations and as a hub of energy weapon supply in the Mojave Wasteland. The main room is what remains of the gutted Silver Rush casino. Military barricades restrict movement of customers, to the advantage of security. Down a short hallway in the back of the accessible part of the store is a bathroom. The cashier's room is barricaded and locked. Past the locked door there are some safes, a locked computer, and a stairway to the living quarters.

The upper floor of the building (directly behind the sign) can be accessed from the second floor of the building on its right. The Courier may hop up the debris piles (companions can sometimes follow) to reach a semi-secret bedroom, complete with mattress and a small dining table that overlooks the street below.

Inhabitants

 * Gloria Van Graff
 * Jean-Baptiste Cutting
 * Simon
 * Van Graff thug

Notable loot

 * Letter to Gloria

Behind the scenes

 * The Silver Rush's sign appears to be based on that of the Golden Nugget, a real life Fremont Street Casino.
 * Lots of content was cut from the Silver Rush:

Bugs

 * If you steal all the weapons on the table (or only weapons that interest you) and reload the auto-save gained from entering the Silver Rush the weapons you stole from before will be in full condition after the save loads.
 * Sometimes stolen energy weapons will stack, as in they won't be visible in your inventory until you drop an energy weapon of the same type (for example it will appear that you only have one laser rifle but when you drop it there is still another in your inventory that was hidden previously). Though these weapons are hidden they still add to your carry weight; so your carry weight is higher than it should be when looking at your apparent inventory which is how the bug was discovered.
 * Sometimes the inventory of Gloria never updates according to character level, selling only the same low-level weapons.
 * After killing the Van Graffs and leaving without taking the weapons, upon re-entering the Silver Rush, some of the weapons will fall through the floor and on a platform below. You will still be able to pick them up, but are harder to find.
 * After exiting the Silver Rush, saving, and quitting, the auto-save and normal save may become bugged and result in endless loading screens upon re-loading either save.
 * With the Mysterious stranger perk, and after completing Heartache by the Number without killing the Van Graffs, if you quickly target a thug and kill him in V.A.T.S mode, the mysterious stranger will be completely invisible and can be targeted with V.A.T.S mode. he will be there forever afterwards. If you damage him enough, he will turn hostile, and kill you in one shot.

Appearances
Silver Rush appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.