Silver Rush

"Silver Rush. Feel the rush of a warm laser in your hand."

The  is a location in Fallout: New Vegas, and is the largest retailer of energy weapons in the Mojave Wasteland. It's located in Freeside, opposite to the Atomic Wrangler Casino nearest to the bridge on the left side.

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.

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 disheveled 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 it's 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. It lacks any type of storage however, reducing it's appeal as player housing.

With a decent sneak level or by using a stealth boy, the player can easily steal the many energy weapons lining the shelves and on the counters. There is a plasma caster worth a large amount of caps on the left side of the counters. Easily missable are the 4 laser rifles in the right hallway in the open tool cabinet as you enter the store. Upstairs there are two hard-locked doors of whose rooms contain plasma weapons, laser weapons, grenades and ammunition. If you don't have 75 lockpicking and you used the key to enter the upstairs section, there are a few whiskeys/vodkas, and a plasma pistol behind the three useless weapon crates in the last unlocked door before the dead end.

Related Quests

 * Birds of a Feather
 * Heartache by the Number

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * When the player enters the Silver Rush for the first time, the scripted event involving the executed prisoner might not play out properly, meaning the guards will still stand at their posts indefinitely and the player will be unable to use the services the store offers. This may be resolved by loading the Autosave made when entering.
 * After the first side-mission for guard duty, going back outside and stealing the Van Graff armor makes it a permanent item in your inventory that cannot be dropped as it is considered a "Quest Item" this can be useful as this armour is weightless while still providing a good amount of damage threshold. After completing or failing Birds of a Feather the quest item tag will be removed and it can be dropped or sold.
 * Maybe they don't sell "strong" weapons (such gauss rifles) but only "standard" equipent (pulse pistols, plasma pistols, laser pistols and rifles) NOTE:on the unpatched game
 * Sometimes, the Plasma Caster will fall through the floor, making it unavailable.
 * If you enter the Silver Rush and leave before the scene between the Van Graffs and the individuals that owe them money is complete the characters will remain frozen when you return.
 * If the player decides to kill Jean-Baptiste sometimes his body will be impossible to loot.
 * Veronica Santangelo may become stuck on the steps to the right leading down to the lower level of the sales floor. Talking to her, or leaving and re-entering the building does not fix this.

Behind the scenes
The Silver Rush's sign appears to be based on that of the Golden Nugget, a real life Fremont Street Casino.