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Pennsylvania Firearms History: From the Pennsylvania Rifle to Modern Gun Rights

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Pennsylvania is ground zero for American gun culture, and I don't mean that in a bumper-sticker way. The actual mechanics of how this country thinks about firearms — the hardware, the legal framework, the cultural fault lines — trace back to one state more than any other. The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, written by a convention in Philadelphia and heavily influenced by Benjamin Franklin and James Cannon, contained in its Declaration of Rights this language: "That the people have a righ...

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Pennsylvania Firearms History: From the Pennsylvania Rifle to Modern Gun Rights

If you want to understand where American gun culture came from, you start in Pennsylvania. Not metaphorically — literally. The rifle form that defined frontier America was born in Lancaster County workshops. The first state constitution to explicitly

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