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>people made their own guns in 1792 and 1868
Thomas Jefferson
>our citizens have always been free to make, vend, and export arms. It is the constant occupation and livelihood of some of them.
>As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprize, and independance to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
>I ask the acceptance, by your son, of a keep-sake from me. it is an article of the tackle of a gun-man, offering the convenience of carrying the powder & shot together. I presume he is a gun-man, as I am sure he ought to be, and every American who wishes to protect his farm from the ravages of quadrupeds & his country from those of biped invaders.
>No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Even before the USA gained independence from Britain, there was widespread legal manufacture and use of firearms. In 1606, King James the First established that the colonies had the right to import necessary goods from Britain, including firearms and ammunition. The 1620 Charter of New England gave colonists the right “to take, load, carry, and transport . . . Armour, Weapons, Ordinances, Munition, Powder, Shott, . . . and all other Things necessary for the said Plantation, and for their Use and Defence, and for Trade with the People there.”

Gunsmithing was widespread and essential to early colonial life, and was a far reaching and established industry by the 17th century with laws in place to defend the ability to produce and sell arms and armor.

I'm just a history fag, I have no real contribution here.

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