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Rhode Island Firearms History

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:27.952Z

Long article, so let's pull the threads worth talking about. Rhode Island's firearms history is one of those topics that sounds like a dry civics lesson until you actually read it — and then it turns out to be a story about a state that was arming Continental soldiers, exporting rifles to the Ottoman Empire, and banning automatic weapons before most states had finished arguing about Prohibition. That's not a curiosity. That's a functioning colony on contested ground treating an armed populac...

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Rhode Island Firearms History

Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union, but its firearms history punches well above its weight. From one of the earliest mandatory-carry laws in colonial America to the first state-level automatic weapons ban in the country, Rhode Island has

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