Interestingly, airguns and black powder guns (antique or modern, law varies) are often NOT on the prohibited list (depending on the laws of various states) for people who are prohibited from buying typical guns. Lewis and Clark traveled across uncharted America, at risk from animals and mobs of unfriendly indigenes, with a repeating airgun as their go-to weapon.
I've been reading some of a biography of Frederick Law Olmstead* the designer of Central Park (NYC) and many other parks.
He was part of those in the North that purchased arms from the anti- slavery party in Kansas. Not only rifles, but at least one howitzer. The biography says something about this but I don't remember what.
* Witold Rybzcynski, A Clearing in the Distance.
OT but WR also mentions border-crashing pro-slavery ballot-box stuffers all the best cycjec
Interestingly, airguns and black powder guns (antique or modern, law varies) are often NOT on the prohibited list (depending on the laws of various states) for people who are prohibited from buying typical guns. Lewis and Clark traveled across uncharted America, at risk from animals and mobs of unfriendly indigenes, with a repeating airgun as their go-to weapon.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading some of a biography of Frederick Law Olmstead* the
ReplyDeletedesigner of Central Park (NYC) and many other parks.
He was part of those in the North that purchased arms from the anti-
slavery party in Kansas. Not only rifles, but at least one howitzer.
The biography says something about this but I don't remember what.
* Witold Rybzcynski, A Clearing in the Distance.
OT but WR also mentions border-crashing pro-slavery ballot-box stuffers
all the best cycjec