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"Eighty Thousand Ghost Guns"
by Tucson Coyote
Three hundred thousand bores,
moved by men with boat ores,
`twas the need to brake free.
Eighty Thousand a Ghost Gun
by which freedom was won,
Today, 2A, they seek to take away.
#80percent #80000GhostGuns #GhostGun #Independence #Freedom
.footnote "Out of the more than 300,000 long arms used by the American line troops during the War for Independence, probably in excess of 80,000 were the products of America’s scattered gunsmiths using mixed components." https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2010/3/29/american-made-muskets-in-the-revolutionary-war/