Nebraska Firearms History: From the Platte River Trail to Constitutional Carry

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Nebraska doesn't get much credit in the firearms conversation — people jump straight to Kentucky long rifles or Texas cattle towns — but if you look at the map, everything moved through the Platte River valley. That corridor shaped more of American gun culture than most people ever think about. The Platte River Road may have seen more firearms pass through it in a thirty-year period than any comparable stretch of geography in North America. That's not a throwaway line. We're talking 300,000...

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Nebraska Firearms History: From the Platte River Trail to Constitutional Carry

Nebraska sits at the geographic center of the American firearms story in a way most people don't fully appreciate. Before it was a state, it was the highway. The Platte River valley funneled hundreds of thousands of emigrants westward between the 184

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