[Repeal The 17th]

“When American troops were in the heat of the fighting in the summer of 1918,
the German government sent a protest through a neutral agency to our Government
asserting that our men were using shotguns against German troops in the trenches.
The Ordnance Department procured some 30,000 to 40,000 shotguns
of the short-barrel or sawed-off type, ordering these from the regular commercial manufacturers.
The shell provided for these guns each contained a charge of nine heavy buckshot.”
~Benedict Crowell, Assistant Secretary of War (1919)
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America’s munitions 1917-1918:
Report of Benedict Crowell(Google eBook):
http://books.google.com/books?id=3XcMAAAAYAAJ&hl=en
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[neverdem]

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