[muawiyah]

Milehi, please learn to read what I wrote - not what you think I wrote.

Anyone can tell I suggested that NOT OWNING A GUN was rare in the old days. People who argue that gunownership was rare "way back when" are, to say the least, full of it, right?!

[MileHi]

Anyone can tell I suggested that NOT OWNING A GUN was rare in the old days

OK, I see that now that I read it again.

I still don't recall the US Gov. having weapons available for citizens unless you mean DCM. The colonists did have central armories of sorts. Witness Lexington...