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North Dakota Firearms History: From Territorial Frontier to Constitutional Carry

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North Dakota doesn't get much attention in firearms circles outside of hunting seasons and the occasional constitutional carry discussion — which is a shame, because the state has one of the more interesting firearms histories on the continent. This piece covers a lot of ground. The transition from smoothbore trade guns to rifled arms — particularly Henry and Winchester Model 1873 lever-action repeaters — happened faster on the Plains than many historians acknowledge. By the 1860s and 1870s,...

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North Dakota Firearms History: From Territorial Frontier to Constitutional Carry

North Dakota sits at the geographic center of the North American continent, and for most of recorded history that position made it a crossroads — for Indigenous nations, fur traders, military expeditions, homesteaders, and eventually the modern hunte

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