What is your gun history?
I’ll tell you mine.
Both sides of my family come from rural origins— poverty and prosperity, depending on the maternal or paternal line.
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My grandparents’ generation kept guns for hunting, and to put down livestock when something went wrong.
That’s all I knew of guns when I was little. I felt sorry for a snakebit gelding when I k…
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