New Mexico Firearms History: From Conquistadors to Constitutional Carry

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Spent a lot of time reading about the Southwest's history at the reloading bench, and this one covers ground most firearms histories skip entirely — the colonial period where Spanish administrators were filing reports about running out of gunpowder 1,800 miles from Mexico City. That detail alone tells you everything about frontier logistics. The .44-40 WCF allowed a man to carry one caliber of ammunition for both his Winchester rifle and Colt revolver -- a practical advantage that shaped the...

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New Mexico Firearms History: From Conquistadors to Constitutional Carry

New Mexico has one of the longest and most layered firearms histories of any state in the union -- and that's not a figure of speech. Spanish colonizers brought matchlock arquebuses into the Rio Grande valley in 1598, more than 175 years before the U

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