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If Joe has a job and a wife and a mortgage, well, there just won’t be action. I meant war, silly.

In the 4-month-long Finnish Civil War [during which about 15 of the population of Finland died; it took the United States four years 1861-1865, to kill off about 2% of its population]some of the most serious and efficient killers were the women. And there were the Lottas the Lotta Svard.

I expect that the American woman will prove the same. Some will be widows; others will bring Hubby along for the party. Some will not.

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I wouldn’t mind having a “Lotta” rifle. Finnish m24.

“This auxiliary organization founded after the Finnish war of Liberation in 1919 was known as the “Lotta Savard”. The group would go on to organize and raise funds to allow the purchase and refurbishment of 10,000 m/24 rifles for the Civil Guard. Thus the m/24 would bear the nickname “Lottakivaari” or “Lotta’s rifle”

http://www.mosinnagant.net/finland/M24-Rifle.asp