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New Hampshire Firearms History

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:15.806Z

Long article, so buckle up — there's a lot here worth chewing on. Most people know "Live Free or Die" the way they know the Gadsden flag — as a bumper sticker or a range bag patch. The actual history behind it is something else entirely. "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils." — General John Stark's toast, 1809, which became New Hampshire's state motto in 1945 Stark wrote that at 81 years old, too sick to make a reunion, so he sent the line in a letter instead. That context cha...

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New Hampshire Firearms History

New Hampshire doesn't just have a motto that sounds like something a gun owner would put on a bumper sticker — the state has actually lived it. "Live Free or Die" isn't marketing copy. It came from General John Stark, the state's most celebrated sold

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