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Connecticut Firearms History

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Long article, worth digging into. Connecticut's firearms story is one of the most overlooked pieces of American shooting history, and it directly shaped the guns most of us have handled, carried, or competed with. Connecticut has always been a blue state with a gun-industry backbone — a place where factory workers built revolvers for generations while their elected officials debated how many rounds a magazine should hold. That tension didn't start in 2013. It's been baked in for over a cent...

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Connecticut Firearms History

No state in America has a more contradictory relationship with firearms than Connecticut. It is the birthplace of Samuel Colt, the home of Eli Whitney's interchangeable parts revolution, the state that armed the Union Army at industrial scale, and th

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